Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Papers
(The median citation count of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems325
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship253
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands249
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale219
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses201
Biogeochemical response to drying-rewetting in riparian soils influences carbon mobilization199
Recoupling C and N cycles: a fertiliser template to synchronise N supply and limit C priming?197
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure191
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils188
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient185
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter179
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils170
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities170
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective163
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems161
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling159
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient157
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage153
Microbial transformation mechanisms of particulate organic carbon to mineral-associated organic carbon at the chemical molecular level: Highlighting the effects of ambient temperature and soil moistur151
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions149
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously147
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality142
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils137
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition134
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe129
Soil oxidoreductase zymography: Visualizing spatial distributions of peroxidase and phenol oxidase activities at the root-soil interface129
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems127
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux124
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome122
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat118
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests116
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation and plant response strongly shape bacterial and eukaryotic soil community trajectories113
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype113
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels112
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Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil105
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications103
Some new grand questions in soil biology and biochemistry102
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture101
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition100
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest99
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow95
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web95
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database94
Rapid mineralization of mineral-bound carboxyl-carbon of salicylic acid and phenylalanine94
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs93
Long-term chemical fertilizer application enhances ammonia oxidizers-mediated soil carbon neutrality92
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils92
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification92
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest90
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps89
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching88
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil88
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon87
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau86
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota86
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient84
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces84
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives84
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]83
Similar mineral-associated organic carbon formation but distinct efficiencies by powdered wollastonite addition between two soils83
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Historical forest disturbance reduces soil microbial efficiency across multiple carbon sources81
Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors81
Soil textural control on moisture distribution at the microscale and its effect on added particulate organic matter mineralization80
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland80
Biochar-influenced solubilization and mineralization mechanisms of phosphorus in saline-sodic soils80
Manure application effects on subsoils: Abundant taxa initiate the diversity reduction of rare bacteria and community functional alterations79
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application78
Testing the environmental controls of microbial nitrogen-mining induced by semi-continuous labile carbon additions in the subarctic77
Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device76
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system75
Decoupled responses of mycorrhizal fungal communities and function to recurrent wildfire75
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves75
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils75
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling74
Sporadic P limitation constrains microbial growth and facilitates SOM accumulation in the stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbe–plant–soil model74
No thermal adaptation in soil extracellular enzymes across a temperate grassland region74
Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands73
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis73
The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)71
Rapid transfer of C and N excreted by decomposer soil animals to plants and above-ground herbivores70
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils70
Nitrogen availability and mineral particles contributed fungal necromass to the newly formed stable carbon pool in the alpine areas of Southwest China70
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization68
Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates67
Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity67
Depth effects on bacterial community assembly processes in paddy soils66
Alternate wetting-drying had no preferences for rice P uptake but increased microbial P allocation to phospholipids: Evidence from dual 32P and 33P labeling65
Soil legacies of a primary invader strongly drive secondary invasions for species that are phylogenetically distant64
Effects of warming on bacterial growth rates in a peat soil under ambient and elevated CO264
Whole soil warming promotes surface soil carbon loss but deep soil carbon gain, depending on land management practices in temperate climate64
Carbon flow from roots to rhizobacterial networks: Grafting effects63
Coupling energy balance and carbon flux during cellulose degradation in arable soils62
Soil carbon mineralization and microbial community dynamics in response to pyrogenic organic matter addition61
Organic cropping systems alter metabolic potential and carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling capacity of soil microbial communities61
The newly proposed threshold for enzymatic stoichiometry: A reliable solution?61
Disentangling carbon stabilization in a Calcisol subsoil amended with iron oxyhydroxides: A dual-13C isotope approach61
Energy and matter dynamics in an estuarine soil are more sensitive to warming than salinization60
Methane sink function of grassland soil microbiomes - negative effects of intensive management persist three years after land-use extensification60
Identification of the rhizosphere microbes that actively consume plant-derived carbon59
Tillage and pesticide seed treatments have distinct effects on soil microbial diversity and function58
A global meta-analysis reveals the positive effect of invasive alien plants on soil heterotrophic respiration58
Soil clay minerals: An overlooked mediator of gross N transformations in Regosolic soils of subtropical montane landscapes58
Root exudation and rhizosphere microbial assembly are influenced by novel plant trait diversity in carrot genotypes58
Mixing with coniferous tree species alleviates rhizosphere soil phosphorus limitation of broad-leaved trees in subtropical plantations57
Field application of pure polyethylene microplastic has no significant short-term effect on soil biological quality and function56
Kinetics of arsenic and antimony reduction and oxidation in peatlands treating mining-affected waters: Effects of microbes, temperature, and carbon substrate56
Reductive dissolution of iron phosphate modifies rice root morphology in phosphorus-deficient paddy soils56
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context55
Abundant and rare bacteria possess different diversity and function in crop monoculture and rotation systems across regional farmland55
Corrigendum to “Plant phenology modulates and undersown cover crops mitigate N2O emissions” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 198 (2024) 109548]55
Drought shifts soil nematodes to smaller size across biological scales55
Nitrifier controls on soil NO and N2O emissions in three chaparral ecosystems under contrasting atmospheric N inputs54
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Planar optodes reveal spatiotemporal heterogeneity of oxic and pH microenvironments driven by dung beetle activity in soil54
Do chromogenic assays of soil enzyme activities need buffers? More disadvantages than advantages of modified universal buffer in the para-nitrophenyl-based assay of phosphomonoesterase and β-glucosida53
Litter diversity accelerates labile carbon but slows recalcitrant carbon decomposition53
Spatiotemporal variation in soil methane uptake in a cool-temperate immature deciduous forest53
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Primary carbon sources and self-induced metabolic landscapes shape community structure in soil bacterial hotspots53
Simplified estimates of soil nematode body mass using maximum diameter: Insights from large-scale grasslands across China53
Dose-response patterns of anaerobic oxidation of methane to nitrogen addition in Chinese paddy fields52
Unravelling the facilitation-competition continuum among ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi52
Factors predictive of the biogeographic distribution of comammox Nitrospira in terrestrial ecosystems52
Mineral-bound lipid formation in soils and sediments: the importance of microbial pathways52
Tillage homogenizes soil bacterial communities in microaggregate fractions by facilitating dispersal52
Soil nematode community profiling using reference-free mito-metagenomics51
Soil P availability and mycorrhizal type determine root exudation in sub-tropical forests51
Nematode predation modulates the energetic dynamics of soil micro-food webs with consequences for soil multifunctionality51
Alterations in substrate stoichiometry control the responses of soil diazotrophs to nutrient enrichment51
Forest restoration increases energy flow through the fungal channel and decreases energy flow through the herbivorous channel in soil micro-food webs50
Root exudate stoichiometry is a key driver of soil N cycling: implications for forest responses to global change50
Rewetting alongside biochar and sulphate addition mitigates greenhouse gas emissions and retain carbon in degraded upland peatlands50
Evaluation of the relation between soil biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and glomalin-related soil protein in conservation agriculture49
Modeling ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics in soil: The microbial dimension49
How does organic amendment affect soil microbial nitrate immobilization rate?49
Divergent responses of soil glomalin and microbial necromass to precipitation reduction: New perspectives from soil aggregates and multi-trophic networks49
Priming effect on soil carbon decomposition by root exudate surrogates: A meta-analysis49
Regulation of soil nitrogen cycling by shrubs in grasslands49
Molecular weight of dissolved organic matter determines its interactions with microbes and its assembly processes in soils49
Dynamic changes in bacterial community structure are associated with distinct priming effect patterns48
Phosphorus limitation regulates the responses of microbial carbon metabolism to long-term combined additions of nitrogen and phosphorus in a cropland48
Microbial community assembly and its influencing factors of secondary forests in Qinling Mountains48
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Dynamic stability of mineral-associated organic matter: enhanced stability and turnover through organic fertilization in a temperate agricultural topsoil47
Disproportional oxidation rates of ammonia and nitrite deciphers the heterogeneity of fertilizer-induced N2O emissions in agricultural soils47
Fiddler crab bioturbation stimulates methane emissions in mangroves: Insights into microbial mechanisms47
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The soil microbial methylome: A tool to explore the role of epigenetic memory in driving soil abiotic legacy effects46
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Deciphering factors controlling decay and nitrogen accumulation in coarse wood debris of five tree species using 15N labeled wood disks46
N-induced soil acidification triggers metal stimulation of soil methane oxidation in a temperate steppe ecosystem45
Distinct seasonal and annual variability of prokaryotes, fungi and protists in cropland soil under different tillage systems and soil texture44
Aeolian dust deposition as a driver of cyanobacterial community structure in biological soil crusts44
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Interplanting leguminous shrubs boosts the trophic interactions of soil micro-food web in a karst grassland44
Nitrogen addition increases the glucose-induced priming effect of the particulate but not the mineral-associated organic carbon fraction44
Restructuring of soil food webs reduces carbon storage potential in boreal peatlands43
Degradation dynamics and microbial processes in yak dung on the Tibetan Plateau43
When microclimates meet soil microbes: Temperature controls soil microbial diversity along an elevational gradient in subtropical forests43
Acidic amelioration of soil amendments improves soil health by impacting rhizosphere microbial assemblies43
The only constant is change: Endogenous circadian rhythms of soil microbial activities43
Digging deeper: deep joint species distribution modeling reveals environmental drivers of Earthworm Communities43
Plant organ rather than cover crop species determines residue incorporation into SOC pools43
High stochasticity in rare bacterial community assembly in rice-wheat rotation soils at a regional scale43
Differential accumulation patterns of microbial necromass induced by maize root vs. shoot residue addition in agricultural Alfisols42
Co-localised phosphorus mobilization processes in the rhizosphere of field-grown maize jointly contribute to plant nutrition42
Preceding crop legacy modulates the early growth of winter wheat by influencing root growth dynamics, rhizosphere processes, and microbial interactions42
Bacterial necromass decomposition and priming effects in paddy soils depend on long-term fertilization42
Back to the roots: Characterizing root exudates of dominant tundra plants to improve the understanding of plant-soil interactions in a changing arctic42
Elevated CO2 and nitrogen interactively affect the rhizosphere priming effect of Cunninghamia lanceolata42
Earthworm influence on soil aggregate distribution and protected carbon at managed forest sites in Vermont, USA42
Microplastics exert minor influence on bacterial community succession during the aging of earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) casts42
Linking Rock-Eval parameters to soil heterotrophic respiration and microbial residues in a black soil42
Carbon cycle in the microbial ecosystems of biological soil crusts42
Signal molecules and enzymes produced by Rhizobium leguminosarum sv. trifolii strains originating from the subpolar and temperate climate zones as elements of adaptation to low temperature stress41
Specific utilization of biopolymers of plant and fungal origin reveals the existence of substrate-specific guilds for bacteria in temperate forest soils41
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Seasonal changes in soil biofilm microbial communities41
Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils41
Controlling matric potential in microfluidics to examine microbial dynamics in unsaturated porous media41
D genome acquisition and breeding have had a significant impact on interaction of wheat with ACC deaminase producers in soil or ACC deaminase potential activity in the rhizosphere40
Deepened snow in combination with summer warming increases growing season nitrous oxide emissions in dry tundra, but not in wet tundra40
Adult body mass influences multi-element stoichiometry in ground beetles40
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Seed treatment with plant-defense elicitors decreases the abundance of ammonia oxidizers associated with winter wheat roots40
Obituary : Clive Arthur Tudor Edwards - 16 June 1925–20 July 202140
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Wood decomposition in poorly-drained forested wetland soils: How important are termites?39
The role of the soil microbiome in the colonisation of glacier forefields by Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) under current and future climate change scenarios39
The influence of forest-to-cropland conversion on temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration across tropical to temperate zones39
Polar soils exhibit distinct patterns in microbial diversity and dominant phylotypes39
Nitrogen-15 natural abundance is robust to quantify nitrogen transfer from clover to grass in temporary grassland39
Global climate changes decoupled soil nitrogen mineralization and immobilization38
Distinct N-cycling microbial communities contribute to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions from denitrification38
Tracing sources and turnover of soil organic matter in a long-term irrigated dry forest using a novel hydrogen isotope approach38
Decoupled responses of leaf and root decomposition to nutrient deposition in a subtropical plantation38
Nitrogen deposition stimulates decomposition via changes in the structure and function of litter food webs38
Land use intensification homogenizes soil protist communities and alters their diversity across Europe38
Biocrusts drive soil respiration across seasons and depths in a cold-winter desert38
Lithologic control of microbial-derived carbon in forest soils38
Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models37
Shifts in C-degradation genes and microbial metabolic activity with vegetation types affected the surface soil organic carbon pool37
Iron oxidation coupled with nitrate reduction affects the acetate-assimilating microbial community structure elucidated by stable isotope probing in flooded paddy soil37
Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil37
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season37
Contributions of microbial necromass and plant lignin to soil organic carbon stock in a paddy field under simulated conditions of long-term elevated CO2 and warming37
Aridity thresholds of microbiome-soil function relationship along a climatic aridity gradient in alpine ecosystem37
Phosphorus fertiliser source determines the allocation of root-derived organic carbon to soil organic matter fractions36
A rapid and sensitive assay to quantify amino sugars, neutral sugars and uronic acid necromass biomarkers using pre-column derivatization, ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography and high-resolut36
Recording earthworm diversity on the tropical island of Martinique using DNA barcoding unveiled endemic species in bromeliad plants36
Sorption strength determines alanine mineralization in volcanic soils36
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities of pristine rainforests and adjacent sugarcane fields recruit from different species pools36
Obituary: Philip Charles Brookes: 26th March 1951–28th September 202335
Paving the way for deeper insights into nematode community composition with long-read metabarcoding: ecological and biogeographical coverage of the sequences35
Respiration and carbon use efficiency characteristics of soluble protein-derived carbon by soil microorganisms: A case study at afforested sites35
Opposite priming responses to labile carbon versus oxygen pulses in anoxic peat35
Strong conditionality in plant-fungal community assembly after soil inoculation in post-agricultural grasslands35
Are enzymes transported in soils by water fluxes?34
Time-varying associations between absorptive fine roots and leaf litter decomposition across 23 plant species34
Biocrusts regulate the effect of rainfall pulses on soil respiration at different temporal scales on the Loess Plateau34
Influences of arsenate and/or phosphate adsorption to ferrihydrite on iron-reducing and arsenic-reducing microbial communities in paddy soil revealed by rRNA-13C-acetate probing34
Increase in iron-bound organic carbon content under simulated sea-level rise: A “marsh organ” field experiment34
Year-round activity of microbial communities in cold-climate peatlands treating mining-affected waters34
Turnover of fungal glucosamine and bacterial muramic acid in comparison with soil organic carbon in two arable soils with distinct fungal communities34
The role of earthworms in the transformation of labile plant litter into mineral-associated organic matter34
Responses of soil rare and abundant microorganisms to recurring biotic disturbances33
Diversity loss of soil microbiome stimulates soil carbon emissions33
Phosphorus addition decreases soil fungal richness and alters fungal guilds in two tropical forests33
Revising the dynamic energy budget theory with a new reserve mobilization rule and three example applications to bacterial growth33
Linking microbial-mediated methane production in wetlands to invasive plants33
The size-variation of microplastics alters plant nitrogen uptake by regulating soil gross nitrogen transformation rates33
Different stochastic processes regulate bacterial and fungal community assembly in estuarine wetland soils33
Mapping of suitable habitats for earthworms in China33
Interactive dynamics between rhizosphere bacterial and viral communities facilitate soybean fitness to cadmium stress revealed by time-series metagenomics33
Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments32
Root exudates from drought-affected plants increase soil respiration across a range of grassland species32
Insight into the role of competition in niche differentiation between ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in ammonium-rich alkaline soil: A network-based study32
Plants with nitrate preference can regulate nitrification to meet their nitrate demand32
Plant community composition and traits modulate the impacts of drought intensity on soil microbial community composition and function32
Microbial diversity is especially important for supporting soil function in low nitrogen ecosystems31
Getting to the root of the problem: Soil carbon and microbial responses to root inputs within a buried paleosol along an eroding hillslope in southwestern Nebraska, USA31
Life at the extreme: Plant-driven hotspots of soil nutrient cycling in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert31
Agronomic amendments drive a diversity of real and apparent priming responses within a grassland soil31
Phosphorus-transforming microbes enhance phosphatase catalytic efficiency to alleviate phosphorus limitation under nitrogen and phosphorus additions in subtropical forest soil31
Environmental preferences of soil microbial attributes for long-term nitrogen and acid addition: From phylotype to community31
Root exudation and fine texture interact to form anoxic microsites in rhizosphere soil31
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