Soil Biology & Biochemistry

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Recoupling C and N cycles: a fertiliser template to synchronise N supply and limit C priming?	631
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	292
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	227
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	224
Trophic interrelationships drive the biogeography of protistan community in agricultural ecosystems	202
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship	191
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	181
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	177
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	173
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses	171
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	165
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	163
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale	152
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure	151
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage	148
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	148
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	148
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	143
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 moistur	143
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	139
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	136
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	133
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	126
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	124
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	118

Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	117
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	115
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Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	113
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	109
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	108
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	107
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe	105
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	102
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	99
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	96
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	96
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	94
Straw return and low N addition modify the partitioning of dissimilatory nitrate reduction by increasing conversion to ammonium in paddy fields	93
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	91
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests	91
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications	90
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	89
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	87
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	86
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	86
Soil oxidoreductase zymography: Visualizing spatial distributions of peroxidase and phenol oxidase activities at the root-soil interface	85
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome	85
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation and plant response strongly shape bacterial and eukaryotic soil community trajectories	85
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	84
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	82
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat	82
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	82
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	82
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	82
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces	81
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	81
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis	80
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	80
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils	78
Historical forest disturbance reduces soil microbial efficiency across multiple carbon sources	77
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Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors	76
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	76
Sporadic P limitation constrains microbial growth and facilitates SOM accumulation in the stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbe–plant–soil model	76
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland	76
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system	74
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling	74
No thermal adaptation in soil extracellular enzymes across a temperate grassland region	74
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves	72
Soil textural control on moisture distribution at the microscale and its effect on added particulate organic matter mineralization	72
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils	71
Rapid transfer of C and N excreted by decomposer soil animals to plants and above-ground herbivores	71
Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands	70
Depth effects on bacterial community assembly processes in paddy soils	70

The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)	70
Biochar-influenced solubilization and mineralization mechanisms of phosphorus in saline-sodic soils	70
Manure application effects on subsoils: Abundant taxa initiate the diversity reduction of rare bacteria and community functional alterations	67
Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity	66
Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems	66
Testing the environmental controls of microbial nitrogen-mining induced by semi-continuous labile carbon additions in the subarctic	66
Nitrogen availability and mineral particles contributed fungal necromass to the newly formed stable carbon pool in the alpine areas of Southwest China	65
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization	65
Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates	65
Shedding light on the functional role of the Ignavibacteria in Italian rice field soil: A meta-genomic/transcriptomic analysis	64
Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device	64
Kinetics of arsenic and antimony reduction and oxidation in peatlands treating mining-affected waters: Effects of microbes, temperature, and carbon substrate	62
Alternate wetting-drying had no preferences for rice P uptake but increased microbial P allocation to phospholipids: Evidence from dual 32P and 33P labeling	62
A global meta-analysis reveals the positive effect of invasive alien plants on soil heterotrophic respiration	62
Soil legacies of a primary invader strongly drive secondary invasions for species that are phylogenetically distant	62
Tillage and pesticide seed treatments have distinct effects on soil microbial diversity and function	61
Role of different size classes of organisms in cropped soils: What do litterbag experiments tell us? A meta-analysis	61
Reductive dissolution of iron phosphate modifies rice root morphology in phosphorus-deficient paddy soils	61
Spatial access and resource limitations control carbon mineralization in soils	61
Effects of warming on bacterial growth rates in a peat soil under ambient and elevated CO2	60
Drought shifts soil nematodes to smaller size across biological scales	60
Soil carbon mineralization and microbial community dynamics in response to pyrogenic organic matter addition	60
The newly proposed threshold for enzymatic stoichiometry: A reliable solution?	59
Soil clay minerals: An overlooked mediator of gross N transformations in Regosolic soils of subtropical montane landscapes	58
Carbon flow from roots to rhizobacterial networks: Grafting effects	58
Whole soil warming promotes surface soil carbon loss but deep soil carbon gain, depending on land management practices in temperate climate	57
Coupling energy balance and carbon flux during cellulose degradation in arable soils	57
Abundant and rare bacteria possess different diversity and function in crop monoculture and rotation systems across regional farmland	57
Energy and matter dynamics in an estuarine soil are more sensitive to warming than salinization	57
Mixing with coniferous tree species alleviates rhizosphere soil phosphorus limitation of broad-leaved trees in subtropical plantations	56
Eukaryotes in soil aggregates across conservation managements: Major roles of protists, fungi and taxa linkages in soil structuring and C stock	56
Disentangling carbon stabilization in a Calcisol subsoil amended with iron oxyhydroxides: A dual-13C isotope approach	55
Identification of the rhizosphere microbes that actively consume plant-derived carbon	54
Root exudation and rhizosphere microbial assembly are influenced by novel plant trait diversity in carrot genotypes	53
Field application of pure polyethylene microplastic has no significant short-term effect on soil biological quality and function	53
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context	53
Corrigendum to “Plant phenology modulates and undersown cover crops mitigate N2O emissions” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 198 (2024) 109548]	52
Nitrifier controls on soil NO and N2O emissions in three chaparral ecosystems under contrasting atmospheric N inputs	52
Organic cropping systems alter metabolic potential and carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling capacity of soil microbial communities	52
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Evaluation of the relation between soil biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and glomalin-related soil protein in conservation agriculture	51
Unravelling the facilitation-competition continuum among ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi	51
Root exudate stoichiometry is a key driver of soil N cycling: implications for forest responses to global change	51
How does organic amendment affect soil microbial nitrate immobilization rate?	51
Dose-response patterns of anaerobic oxidation of methane to nitrogen addition in Chinese paddy fields	51
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Alterations in substrate stoichiometry control the responses of soil diazotrophs to nutrient enrichment	51
Dynamic stability of mineral-associated organic matter: enhanced stability and turnover through organic fertilization in a temperate agricultural topsoil	50
Priming effect on soil carbon decomposition by root exudate surrogates: A meta-analysis	50
Microbial community assembly and its influencing factors of secondary forests in Qinling Mountains	50
Dynamic changes in bacterial community structure are associated with distinct priming effect patterns	49
Litter diversity accelerates labile carbon but slows recalcitrant carbon decomposition	49
Soil P availability and mycorrhizal type determine root exudation in sub-tropical forests	49
Phosphorus limitation regulates the responses of microbial carbon metabolism to long-term combined additions of nitrogen and phosphorus in a cropland	49
Transferring concepts from plant to microbial ecology: A framework proposal to identify relevant bacterial functional traits	48
Soil nematode community profiling using reference-free mito-metagenomics	48
Mineral-bound lipid formation in soils and sediments: the importance of microbial pathways	48
Simplified estimates of soil nematode body mass using maximum diameter: Insights from large-scale grasslands across China	48
Rewetting alongside biochar and sulphate addition mitigates greenhouse gas emissions and retain carbon in degraded upland peatlands	48
Primary carbon sources and self-induced metabolic landscapes shape community structure in soil bacterial hotspots	48
Fiddler crab bioturbation stimulates methane emissions in mangroves: Insights into microbial mechanisms	47
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-glucosida	47
Regulation of soil nitrogen cycling by shrubs in grasslands	47
Molecular weight of dissolved organic matter determines its interactions with microbes and its assembly processes in soils	46
Tillage homogenizes soil bacterial communities in microaggregate fractions by facilitating dispersal	46
Disproportional oxidation rates of ammonia and nitrite deciphers the heterogeneity of fertilizer-induced N2O emissions in agricultural soils	46
Divergent responses of soil glomalin and microbial necromass to precipitation reduction: New perspectives from soil aggregates and multi-trophic networks	46
Modeling ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics in soil: The microbial dimension	46
Forest restoration increases energy flow through the fungal channel and decreases energy flow through the herbivorous channel in soil micro-food webs	46
Spatiotemporal variation in soil methane uptake in a cool-temperate immature deciduous forest	46
Factors predictive of the biogeographic distribution of comammox Nitrospira in terrestrial ecosystems	45
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The soil microbial methylome: A tool to explore the role of epigenetic memory in driving soil abiotic legacy effects	44
Interplanting leguminous shrubs boosts the trophic interactions of soil micro-food web in a karst grassland	44
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Earthworm influence on soil aggregate distribution and protected carbon at managed forest sites in Vermont, USA	44
Deciphering factors controlling decay and nitrogen accumulation in coarse wood debris of five tree species using 15N labeled wood disks	43
Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils	43
Differential accumulation patterns of microbial necromass induced by maize root vs. shoot residue addition in agricultural Alfisols	43

The only constant is change: Endogenous circadian rhythms of soil microbial activities	43
Aeolian dust deposition as a driver of cyanobacterial community structure in biological soil crusts	43
Plant organ rather than cover crop species determines residue incorporation into SOC pools	42
Microplastics exert minor influence on bacterial community succession during the aging of earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) casts	42
Preceding crop legacy modulates the early growth of winter wheat by influencing root growth dynamics, rhizosphere processes, and microbial interactions	42
N-induced soil acidification triggers metal stimulation of soil methane oxidation in a temperate steppe ecosystem	42
Carbon cycle in the microbial ecosystems of biological soil crusts	42
Acidic amelioration of soil amendments improves soil health by impacting rhizosphere microbial assemblies	42
High stochasticity in rare bacterial community assembly in rice-wheat rotation soils at a regional scale	42
Restructuring of soil food webs reduces carbon storage potential in boreal peatlands	42
When microclimates meet soil microbes: Temperature controls soil microbial diversity along an elevational gradient in subtropical forests	42
Elevated CO2 and nitrogen interactively affect the rhizosphere priming effect of Cunninghamia lanceolata	41
Distinct seasonal and annual variability of prokaryotes, fungi and protists in cropland soil under different tillage systems and soil texture	41
Linking Rock-Eval parameters to soil heterotrophic respiration and microbial residues in a black soil	41
Plant mixture effects on carbon-degrading enzymes promote soil organic carbon accumulation	41
Back to the roots: Characterizing root exudates of dominant tundra plants to improve the understanding of plant-soil interactions in a changing arctic	40
The influence of forest-to-cropland conversion on temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration across tropical to temperate zones	40
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Controlling matric potential in microfluidics to examine microbial dynamics in unsaturated porous media	40
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 stress	40
Nitrogen addition increases the glucose-induced priming effect of the particulate but not the mineral-associated organic carbon fraction	40
Co-localised phosphorus mobilization processes in the rhizosphere of field-grown maize jointly contribute to plant nutrition	40
Degradation dynamics and microbial processes in yak dung on the Tibetan Plateau	40
Wood decomposition in poorly-drained forested wetland soils: How important are termites?	40
Obituary : Clive Arthur Tudor Edwards - 16 June 1925–20 July 2021	39
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Adult body mass influences multi-element stoichiometry in ground beetles	39
The role of the soil microbiome in the colonisation of glacier forefields by Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) under current and future climate change scenarios	39
Deepened snow in combination with summer warming increases growing season nitrous oxide emissions in dry tundra, but not in wet tundra	39
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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 rhizosphere	39
Seed treatment with plant-defense elicitors decreases the abundance of ammonia oxidizers associated with winter wheat roots	39
Seasonal changes in soil biofilm microbial communities	39
Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil	38
Aridity thresholds of microbiome-soil function relationship along a climatic aridity gradient in alpine ecosystem	38
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season	38
Nitrogen deposition stimulates decomposition via changes in the structure and function of litter food webs	38
Polar soils exhibit distinct patterns in microbial diversity and dominant phylotypes	38
Decoupled responses of leaf and root decomposition to nutrient deposition in a subtropical plantation	38
Specific utilization of biopolymers of plant and fungal origin reveals the existence of substrate-specific guilds for bacteria in temperate forest soils	37
Tracing sources and turnover of soil organic matter in a long-term irrigated dry forest using a novel hydrogen isotope approach	37
Biocrusts drive soil respiration across seasons and depths in a cold-winter desert	37
Shifts in C-degradation genes and microbial metabolic activity with vegetation types affected the surface soil organic carbon pool	37
Lithologic control of microbial-derived carbon in forest soils	37
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 warming	36
Land use intensification homogenizes soil protist communities and alters their diversity across Europe	36
Nitrogen-15 natural abundance is robust to quantify nitrogen transfer from clover to grass in temporary grassland	36
Global climate changes decoupled soil nitrogen mineralization and immobilization	36
Distinct N-cycling microbial communities contribute to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions from denitrification	36
Phosphorus fertiliser source determines the allocation of root-derived organic carbon to soil organic matter fractions	36
Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models	35
Obituary: Philip Charles Brookes: 26th March 1951–28th September 2023	35
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Year-round activity of microbial communities in cold-climate peatlands treating mining-affected waters	35
Iron oxidation coupled with nitrate reduction affects the acetate-assimilating microbial community structure elucidated by stable isotope probing in flooded paddy soil	35
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities of pristine rainforests and adjacent sugarcane fields recruit from different species pools	35
Linking microbial-mediated methane production in wetlands to invasive plants	35
The size-variation of microplastics alters plant nitrogen uptake by regulating soil gross nitrogen transformation rates	35
Sorption strength determines alanine mineralization in volcanic soils	35
Physical characterisation of chia mucilage polymeric gel and its implications on rhizosphere science - Integrating imaging, MRI, and modelling to gain insights into plant and microbial amended soils	35
Recording earthworm diversity on the tropical island of Martinique using DNA barcoding unveiled endemic species in bromeliad plants	34
Opposite priming responses to labile carbon versus oxygen pulses in anoxic peat	34
Strong conditionality in plant-fungal community assembly after soil inoculation in post-agricultural grasslands	34
The role of earthworms in the transformation of labile plant litter into mineral-associated organic matter	34
Root exudates from drought-affected plants increase soil respiration across a range of grassland species	34
Respiration and carbon use efficiency characteristics of soluble protein-derived carbon by soil microorganisms: A case study at afforested sites	34
Revising the dynamic energy budget theory with a new reserve mobilization rule and three example applications to bacterial growth	34
Are enzymes transported in soils by water fluxes?	33
Interactive dynamics between rhizosphere bacterial and viral communities facilitate soybean fitness to cadmium stress revealed by time-series metagenomics	33
Insight into the role of competition in niche differentiation between ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in ammonium-rich alkaline soil: A network-based study	33
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-resolut	33
Increase in iron-bound organic carbon content under simulated sea-level rise: A “marsh organ” field experiment	33
Mapping of suitable habitats for earthworms in China	33
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 probing	33
Turnover of fungal glucosamine and bacterial muramic acid in comparison with soil organic carbon in two arable soils with distinct fungal communities	33
Time-varying associations between absorptive fine roots and leaf litter decomposition across 23 plant species	33
Biocrusts regulate the effect of rainfall pulses on soil respiration at different temporal scales on the Loess Plateau	33
Plant community composition and traits modulate the impacts of drought intensity on soil microbial community composition and function	33
Phosphorus-transforming microbes enhance phosphatase catalytic efficiency to alleviate phosphorus limitation under nitrogen and phosphorus additions in subtropical forest soil	33
Different stochastic processes regulate bacterial and fungal community assembly in estuarine wetland soils	32
Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments	32
Soil microbial communities are driven by the declining availability of cations and phosphorus during ecosystem retrogression	32
Responses of soil rare and abundant microorganisms to recurring biotic disturbances	32
Plants with nitrate preference can regulate nitrification to meet their nitrate demand	32
Phosphorus addition decreases soil fungal richness and alters fungal guilds in two tropical forests	32
Combining multiple baiting cycles with digital droplet PCR optimizes description of the distribution of entomopathogenic nematodes in French maize fields	31
LC-MS analysis of D2O-labelled soil suggests a large fraction of membrane lipid exists within slow growing microbes	31
Litter decomposition rate response to multiple global change factors: A meta-analysis	31
Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi colonisation stimulates uptake of inorganic nitrogen and sulphur but reduces utilisation of organic forms in tomato	31
Tracing service crops' net carbon and nitrogen rhizodeposition into soil organic matter fractions using dual isotopic brush-labeling	31
Prolonged drought causes negative plant-soil feedbacks in grassland species under field conditions	31
A full-length SSU rRNA-based workflow for high-resolution monitoring of nematode communities reveals direct and indirect responses to plant-based manipulations	31
Microbial carbon use and associated changes in microbial community structure in high-Arctic tundra soils under elevated temperature	31