Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Article	Citations
Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter	391
The microplastisphere: Biodegradable microplastics addition alters soil microbial community structure and function	268
Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems	252
Microplastics in the agroecosystem: Are they an emerging threat to the plant-soil system?	204
How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health	202
Effects of microplastics on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a soil spiked with ZnO nanoparticles	155
Soil moisture mediates microbial carbon and phosphorus metabolism during vegetation succession in a semiarid region	145
The physical structure of soil: Determinant and consequence of trophic interactions	144
Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reflects the shift from P- to N-limitation of microorganisms with grassland restoration	119
Network analysis and subsequent culturing reveal keystone taxa involved in microbial litter decomposition dynamics	117
Soil microbial diversity and composition: Links to soil texture and associated properties	114
Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on microbial community composition and element cycling in a grassland soil	109
Deliberate introduction of invisible invaders: A critical appraisal of the impact of microbial inoculants on soil microbial communities	108
Changes in soil bacterial and fungal community composition and functional groups during the succession of boreal forests	105
Farmyard manure applications stimulate soil carbon and nitrogen cycling by boosting microbial biomass rather than changing its community composition	105
Network analysis reveals the strengthening of microbial interaction in biological soil crust development in the Mu Us Sandy Land, northwestern China	102
Negative effects of multiple global change factors on soil microbial diversity	100
Nutrient addition reduces carbon sequestration in a Tibetan grassland soil: Disentangling microbial and physical controls	98
Global patterns and associated drivers of priming effect in response to nutrient addition	97
Microbial necromass on the rise: The growing focus on its role in soil organic matter development	97
Organic amendments drive shifts in microbial community structure and keystone taxa which increase C mineralization across aggregate size classes	95
Soil microbial network complexity predicts ecosystem function along elevation gradients on the Tibetan Plateau	92
Does ecoenzymatic stoichiometry really determine microbial nutrient limitations?	92
Soil aggregate size-dependent relationships between microbial functional diversity and multifunctionality	91
Rewetting of soil: Revisiting the origin of soil CO2 emissions	91

Soil textural heterogeneity impacts bacterial but not fungal diversity	90
Similar drivers but different effects lead to distinct ecological patterns of soil bacterial and archaeal communities	86
Long-term excess nitrogen fertilizer increases sensitivity of soil microbial community to seasonal change revealed by ecological network and metagenome analyses	85
Glomalin – Truths, myths, and the future of this elusive soil glycoprotein	84
Application of biofertilizer containing Bacillus subtilis reduced the nitrogen loss in agricultural soil	84
Microbial communities in crop phyllosphere and root endosphere are more resistant than soil microbiota to fertilization	82
Long-term high-P fertilizer input decreased the total bacterial diversity but not phoD-harboring bacteria in wheat rhizosphere soil with available-P deficiency	82
Fertilization changes soil microbiome functioning, especially phagotrophic protists	82
Assembly of abundant and rare bacterial and fungal sub-communities in different soil aggregate sizes in an apple orchard treated with cover crop and fertilizer	80
Adaptive pathways of soil microorganisms to stoichiometric imbalances regulate microbial respiration following afforestation in the Loess Plateau, China	80
Changes in assembly processes of soil microbial communities during secondary succession in two subtropical forests	79
Tradeoffs among microbial life history strategies influence the fate of microbial residues in subtropical forest soils	79
Priming mechanisms providing plants and microbes access to mineral-associated organic matter	79
Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition	79
How soil biota regulate C cycling and soil C pools in diversified crop rotations	79
Sticky dead microbes: Rapid abiotic retention of microbial necromass in soil	78
Decoupled diversity patterns in bacteria and fungi across continental forest ecosystems	78
Organic fertilization promotes crop productivity through changes in soil aggregation	77
The ‘soil health’ metaphor: Illuminating or illusory?	76
Rusty sink of rhizodeposits and associated keystone microbiomes	75
Soil properties rather than climate and ecosystem type control the vertical variations of soil organic carbon, microbial carbon, and microbial quotient	75
Metagenomics and stable isotope probing reveal the complementary contribution of fungal and bacterial communities in the recycling of dead biomass in forest soil	74
Global biogeography of fungal and bacterial biomass carbon in topsoil	73
From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils	73
Increasing contribution of microbial residues to soil organic carbon in grassland restoration chronosequence	73
Strong priming of soil organic matter induced by frequent input of labile carbon	72
Management practices differently affect particulate and mineral-associated organic matter and their precursors in arable soils	72
Biogeographic patterns of microbial co-occurrence ecological networks in six American forests	70
Biochar stability and impact on soil organic carbon mineralization depend on biochar processing, aging and soil clay content	69
An evaluation of carbon indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments	69
Prevalent root-derived phenolics drive shifts in microbial community composition and prime decomposition in forest soil	69
Increased contribution of root exudates to soil carbon input during grassland degradation	68
Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis	68
Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology	68
The role of plant input physical-chemical properties, and microbial and soil chemical diversity on the formation of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter	67
Fungi determine increased soil organic carbon more than bacteria through their necromass inputs in conservation tillage croplands	67
Soil texture affects the coupling of litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation	64
Deterministic selection dominates microbial community assembly in termite mounds	64
NosZ clade II rather than clade I determine in situ N2O emissions with different fertilizer types under simulated climate change and its legacy	64
Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates	63
Patterns and determinants of soil microbial residues from tropical to boreal forests	63
A global meta-analysis on freeze-thaw effects on soil carbon and phosphorus cycling	63
Heterotrophic nitrification – An eternal mystery in the nitrogen cycle	63
Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands	62
The life of soils: Integrating the who and how of multifunctionality	62
Deep-C storage: Biological, chemical and physical strategies to enhance carbon stocks in agricultural subsoils	62
Nematode-based indices in soil ecology: Application, utility, and future directions	61
Century long fertilization reduces stochasticity controlling grassland microbial community succession	61
Root functional traits are key determinants of the rhizosphere effect on soil organic matter decomposition across 14 temperate hardwood species	60
Predicting measures of soil health using the microbiome and supervised machine learning	59

Niche differentiation of clade A comammox Nitrospira and canonical ammonia oxidizers in selected forest soils	59
Soil phosphorus availability modifies the relationship between AM fungal diversity and mycorrhizal benefits to maize in an agricultural soil	58
Biogeography and emerging significance of Actinobacteria in Australia and Northern Antarctica soils	58
Impact of nitrogen addition on plant-soil-enzyme C–N–P stoichiometry and microbial nutrient limitation	58
Is litter decomposition enhanced in species mixtures? A meta-analysis	58
Microbial carbon use efficiency in grassland soils subjected to nitrogen and phosphorus additions	57
Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness	57
Mycorrhizal fungi and phosphatase involvement in rhizosphere phosphorus transformations improves plant nutrition during subtropical forest succession	57
Metagenomics reveals taxon-specific responses of the nitrogen-cycling microbial community to long-term nitrogen fertilization	57
Dissolved organic matter characteristics in soils of tropical legume and non-legume tree plantations	57
Deciphering the relative importance of soil and plant traits on the development of rhizosphere microbial communities	56
Drought accentuates the role of mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake	56
Organic matter stabilization in aggregates and density fractions in paddy soil depending on long-term fertilization: Tracing of pathways by 13C natural abundance	56
Global effects on soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity depend on nitrogen addition rate	55
Can moisture affect temperature dependences of microbial growth and respiration?	55
Rare fungus, Mortierella capitata, promotes crop growth by stimulating primary metabolisms related genes and reshaping rhizosphere bacterial community	55
Lysogenic reproductive strategies of viral communities vary with soil depth and are correlated with bacterial diversity	54
Comparing root exudate collection techniques: An improved hybrid method	54
Plant residue chemical quality modulates the soil microbial response related to decomposition and soil organic carbon and nitrogen stabilization in a rainfed Mediterranean agroecosystem	53
Different contribution of species sorting and exogenous species immigration from manure to soil fungal diversity and community assemblage under long-term fertilization	53
Plant carbon inputs through shoot, root, and mycorrhizal pathways affect soil organic carbon turnover differently	53
Temperatures beyond the community optimum promote the dominance of heat-adapted, fast growing and stress resistant bacteria in alpine soils	53
Stoichiometric regulation of priming effects and soil carbon balance by microbial life strategies	52
Fungal denitrification revisited – Recent advancements and future opportunities	52
Continuous application of conservation tillage affects in situ N2O emissions and nitrogen cycling gene abundances following nitrogen fertilization	52
Sensitivity of soil carbon dynamics to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in an alpine meadow	52
Direct and indirect influences of long-term fertilization on microbial carbon and nitrogen cycles in an alpine grassland	52
Visualizing the transfer of organic matter from decaying plant residues to soil mineral surfaces controlled by microorganisms	51
Root exudates shift how N mineralization and N fixation contribute to the plant-available N supply in low fertility soils	51
Initial soil formation by biocrusts: Nitrogen demand and clay protection control microbial necromass accrual and recycling	51
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context	50
Effects of disturbance to moss biocrusts on soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and microbial communities in degraded karst landscapes in southwest China	50
Priming, stabilization and temperature sensitivity of native SOC is controlled by microbial responses and physicochemical properties of biochar	50
Biochar with large specific surface area recruits N2O-reducing microbes and mitigate N2O emission	50
Organic matter chemistry and bacterial community structure regulate decomposition processes in post-fire forest soils	49
Straw chemistry links the assembly of bacterial communities to decomposition in paddy soils	49
Where and why do particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) differ among diverse soils?	49
Rhizosphere microbial communities explain positive effects of diverse crop rotations on maize and soybean performance	49
Functional compensation dominates the assembly of plant rhizospheric bacterial community	49
Oxygen availability determines key regulators in soil organic carbon mineralisation in paddy soils	49
Rhizosphere hotspots: Root hairs and warming control microbial efficiency, carbon utilization and energy production	49
Identification of microbial strategies for labile substrate utilization at phylogenetic classification using a microcosm approach	48
Primings of soil organic matter and denitrification mediate the effects of moisture on nitrous oxide production	48
Field application of pure polyethylene microplastic has no significant short-term effect on soil biological quality and function	48
Abundance and functional importance of complete ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (comammox) versus canonical nitrifiers in temperate forest soils	47
Long-term diverse rotation alters nitrogen cycling bacterial groups and nitrous oxide emissions after nitrogen fertilization	47
Crop production correlates with soil multitrophic communities at the large spatial scale	47
Nitrogen addition increases microbial necromass in croplands and bacterial necromass in forests: A global meta-analysis	46
Modulation of the soil microbiome by long-term Ca-based soil amendments boosts soil organic carbon and physicochemical quality in a tropical no-till crop rotation system	46
Impacts of forest thinning on soil microbial community structure and extracellular enzyme activities: A global meta-analysis	46
Earthworm mucus contributes to the formation of organo-mineral associations in soil	45
Soil acidification modifies soil depth-microbiome relationships in a no-till wheat cropping system	44
Does the ratio of β-1,4-glucosidase to β-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminidase indicate the relative resource allocation of soil microbes to C and N acquisition?	44
Plant and microbial pathways driving plant diversity effects on soil carbon accumulation in subtropical forest	44
Nitrogen addition stimulates priming effect in a subtropical forest soil	44
Coarse mineral-associated organic matter is a pivotal fraction for SOM formation and is sensitive to the quality of organic inputs	44
Different stochastic processes regulate bacterial and fungal community assembly in estuarine wetland soils	44
Quantification of the global impact of agricultural practices on soil nematodes: A meta-analysis	44
Sonneratia apetala introduction alters methane cycling microbial communities and increases methane emissions in mangrove ecosystems	44
Microbial solubilization of silicon and phosphorus from bedrock in relation to abundance of phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria in temperate forest soils	43
Earthworms accelerate the biogeochemical cycling of potentially toxic elements: Results of a meta-analysis	43
Rice rhizodeposition promotes the build-up of organic carbon in soil via fungal necromass	43
Potential denitrification stimulated by water-soluble organic carbon from plant residues during initial decomposition	43
Long-term farmyard manure application affects soil organic phosphorus cycling: A combined metagenomic and 33P/14C labelling study	43
Differential accumulation of microbial necromass and plant lignin in synthetic versus organic fertilizer-amended soil	43
Potential of crop-livestock integration to enhance carbon sequestration and agroecosystem functioning in semi-arid croplands	42
Application of manure from cattle administered antibiotics has sustained multi-year impacts on soil resistome and microbial community structure	42
The contribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria to gross nitrification under different substrate availability	41
Dynamic changes in bacterial community structure are associated with distinct priming effect patterns	41
Depth effects on bacterial community assembly processes in paddy soils	41
Stable isotopes reveal that fungal residues contribute more to mineral-associated organic matter pools than plant residues	41
Decreased rhizodeposition, but increased microbial carbon stabilization with soil depth down to 3.6 m	41
Rhizosphere microbiome assembly involves seed-borne bacteria in compensatory phosphate solubilization	41
Soil microbiome drives the recovery of ecosystem functions after fire	41
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry can reflect microbial resource limitation, substrate quality, or both in forest soils	40
Effects of elevated pH and phosphorus fertilizer on soil C, N and P enzyme stoichiometry in an acidic mixed mesophytic deciduous forest	40
Fungal extracellular polymeric substance matrices – Highly specialized microenvironments that allow fungi to control soil organic matter decomposition reactions	40
Revisiting the quantitative contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon pool: Stoichiometric control by microbes and soil	40
The biocontrol agent Streptomyces pactum increases Pseudomonas koreensis populations in the rhizosphere by enhancing chemotaxis and biofilm formation	40
Resistance of microbial community and its functional sensitivity in the rhizosphere hotspots to drought	40

Organic phosphorus availability shapes the diversity of phoD-harboring bacteria in agricultural soil	40
Resistant soil carbon is more vulnerable to priming effect than active soil carbon	40
Nitrogen addition alters composition, diversity, and functioning of microbial communities in mangrove soils: An incubation experiment	40
A critical perspective on interpreting amplicon sequencing data in soil ecological research	39
Distribution of phosphorus cycling genes across land uses and microbial taxonomic groups based on metagenome and genome mining	39
Improved global-scale predictions of soil carbon stocks with Millennial Version 2	39
Rhizosphere effects of woody plants on soil biogeochemical processes: A meta-analysis	39
Soil functional biodiversity and biological quality under threat: Intensive land use outweighs climate change	39
Biochar induces mineralization of soil recalcitrant components by activation of biochar responsive bacteria groups	39
Microplastics effects on soil biota are dependent on their properties: A meta-analysis	38
Labile carbon facilitated phosphorus solubilization as regulated by bacterial and fungal communities in Zea mays	38
Sulfate addition and rising temperature promote arsenic methylation and the formation of methylated thioarsenates in paddy soils	38
Interacting effects of land use type, microbes and plant traits on soil aggregate stability	38
Root and mycorrhizal strategies for nutrient acquisition in forests under nitrogen deposition: A meta-analysis	38
The importance of rare versus abundant phoD-harboring subcommunities in driving soil alkaline phosphatase activity and available P content in Chinese steppe ecosystems	38
Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils	38
Conversion to agroforestry and monoculture plantation is detrimental to the soil carbon and nitrogen cycles and microbial communities of a rainforest	38
Co-symbiosis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and diazotrophs promote biological nitrogen fixation in mangrove ecosystems	37
Dominant plants affect litter decomposition mainly through modifications of the soil microbial community	37
Effect of a tree mixture and water availability on soil nutrients and extracellular enzyme activities along the soil profile in an experimental forest	37
Soil bacterial community functions and distribution after mining disturbance	37
Antibiotic resistance gene abundance and bacterial community structure in soils altered by Ammonium and Nitrate Concentrations	37
Abiotic and biotic regulation on carbon mineralization and stabilization in paddy soils along iron oxide gradients	37
Mineralization of organic carbon and formation of microbial biomass in soil: Effects of clay content and composition and the mechanisms involved	37
Protists modulate fungal community assembly in paddy soils across climatic zones at the continental scale	37
The role of land management and elevation in shaping soil microbial communities: Insights from the Central European Alps	37
Sources and priming of soil N2O and CO2 production: Nitrogen and simulated exudate additions	37
Warming promotes loss of subsoil carbon through accelerated degradation of plant-derived organic matter	37
Iron-bound organic carbon is conserved in the rhizosphere soil of freshwater wetlands	36
Global meta-analysis of terrestrial nitrous oxide emissions and associated functional genes under nitrogen addition	36
Microbial substrate stoichiometry governs nutrient effects on nitrogen cycling in grassland soils	36
Drought accelerated recalcitrant carbon loss by changing soil aggregation and microbial communities in a subtropical forest	36
Turnover of gram-negative bacterial biomass-derived carbon through the microbial food web of an agricultural soil	36
Responses of soil ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea diversity to N, P and NP fertilization: Relationships with soil environmental variables and plant community diversity	36
Nitrogen-induced acidification plays a vital role driving ecosystem functions: Insights from a 6-year nitrogen enrichment experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow	36
Soil macrofauna: Study problems and perspectives	36
Top-down effects of protists are greater than bottom-up effects of fertilisers on the formation of bacterial communities in a paddy field soil	35
Carbon nanotubes accelerate acetoclastic methanogenesis: From pure cultures to anaerobic soils	35
Distinct factors drive the diversity and composition of protistan consumers and phototrophs in natural soil ecosystems	35
Abundance of saprotrophic fungi determines decomposition rates of leaf litter from arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal trees in a subtropical forest	35
Biochar alters nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in a western rangeland ecosystem	35
Nutrient (C, N and P) enrichment induces significant changes in the soil metabolite profile and microbial carbon partitioning	35
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season	35
Soil aggregate-mediated microbial responses to long-term warming	34
Long-term CO2 enrichment alters the diversity and function of the microbial community in soils with high organic carbon	34
A core microbiota of the plant-earthworm interaction conserved across soils	34
Active metabolic pathways of anaerobic methane oxidation in paddy soils	34
Evidence for involvement of keystone fungal taxa in organic phosphorus mineralization in subtropical soil and the impact of labile carbon	34
Iron-bound carbon increases along a freshwater−oligohaline gradient in a subtropical tidal wetland	34
Succession of the composition and co-occurrence networks of rhizosphere microbiota is linked to Cd/Zn hyperaccumulation	34
Loss of microbial diversity does not decrease γ-HCH degradation but increases methanogenesis in flooded paddy soil	33
Plant pathological condition is associated with fungal community succession triggered by root exudates in the plant-soil system	33
Predicting the influence of fertilization regimes on potential N fixation through their effect on free-living diazotrophic community structure in double rice cropping systems	33
Metagenomic reconstruction of nitrogen and carbon cycling pathways in forest soil: Influence of different hardwood tree species	33
Soil carbon balance by priming differs with single versus repeated addition of glucose and soil fertility level	33
Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and fungal denitrifier diversity are associated with N2O production in tropical soils	33
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and goethite promote carbon sequestration via hyphal-aggregate mineral interactions	33
Plants with an ammonium preference affect soil N transformations to optimize their N acquisition	33
Meta-analysis of the impact of freeze–thaw cycles on soil microbial diversity and C and N dynamics	33
Mycorrhizal association of common European tree species shapes biomass and metabolic activity of bacterial and fungal communities in soil	33
Temperature and soil management effects on carbon fluxes and priming effect intensity	33
Trade-offs in greenhouse gas emissions across a liming-induced gradient of soil pH: Role of microbial structure and functioning	32
Co-occurring increased phosphatase activity and labile P depletion in the rhizosphere of Lupinus angustifolius assessed with a novel, combined 2D-imaging approach	32
Microbial carbon use efficiency and priming of soil organic matter mineralization by glucose additions in boreal forest soils with different C:N ratios	32
Rates of dark CO2 fixation are driven by microbial biomass in a temperate forest soil	32
The chemodiversity of paddy soil dissolved organic matter is shaped and homogenized by bacterial communities that are orchestrated by geographic distance and fertilizations	32
Carbon pathways in aggregates and density fractions in Mollisols under water and straw management: Evidence from 13C natural abundance	32
Maize genotype-specific exudation strategies: An adaptive mechanism to increase microbial activity in the rhizosphere	32
Chronic nitrogen addition differentially affects gross nitrogen transformations in alpine and temperate grassland soils	32
Synthesis of methods used to assess soil protease activity	32
Soil DOC release and aggregate disruption mediate rhizosphere priming effect on soil C decomposition	32
Gross nitrogen transformations in tropical pasture soils as affected by Urochloa genotypes differing in biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) capacity	32
Invasive plant-derived dissolved organic matter alters microbial communities and carbon cycling in soils	32
Plant-derived lipids play a crucial role in forest soil carbon accumulation	31
Soil carbon dynamics during drying vs. rewetting: Importance of antecedent moisture conditions	31
Canonical ammonia oxidizers, rather than comammox Nitrospira, dominated autotrophic nitrification during the mineralization of organic substances in two paddy soils	31
Depth patterns and connections between gross nitrogen cycling and soil exoenzyme activities in three northern hardwood forests	31
Frequency of stover mulching but not amount regulates the decomposition pathways of soil micro-foodwebs in a no-tillage system	31
Priming of soil organic carbon induced by sugarcane residues and its biochar control the source of nitrogen for plant uptake: A dual 13C and 15N isotope three-source-partitioning study	31
Estimating microbial carbon use efficiency in soil: Isotope-based and enzyme-based methods measure fundamentally different aspects of microbial resource use	31
Impact of grassland afforestation with contrasting tree species on soil phosphorus fractions and alkaline phosphatase gene communities	31
Drought-induced and seasonal variation in carbon use efficiency is associated with fungi:bacteria ratio and enzyme production in a grassland ecosystem	30
Biochar amendment increases bacterial diversity and vegetation cover in trace element-polluted soils: A long-term field experiment	30
Root-induced fungal growth triggers macroaggregation in forest subsoils	30
A soil microbial model to analyze decoupled microbial growth and respiration during soil drying and rewetting	30
Distinct accumulation of bacterial and fungal residues along a salinity gradient in coastal salt-affected soils	30
You must choose, but choose wisely: Model-based approaches for microbial community analysis	30
Physical mechanisms for soil moisture effects on microbial carbon-use efficiency in a sandy loam soil in the western United States	30
Active phoD-harboring bacteria are enriched by long-term organic fertilization	30
Decomposing cover crops modify root-associated microbiome composition and disease tolerance of cash crop seedlings	30
Soil enzyme stoichiometry is tightly linked to microbial community composition in successional ecosystems after glacier retreat	30
Impact of common sample pre-treatments on key soil microbial properties	30
Strong shifts in microbial community structure are associated with increased litter input rather than temperature in High Arctic soils	29
Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach	29
Microbial functional genes driving the positive priming effect in forest soils along an elevation gradient	29