Biology and Fertility of Soils

Article	Citations
Phosphorus accumulation by seabird nesting changes soil bacterial community and nutrient cycles of a subtropical Island	136
Simulated heat wave events increase CO2 and N2O emissions from cropland and forest soils in an incubation experiment	65
Leaf economics spectrum prevails over nutrient resorption in regulating the temperature sensitivity of litter decomposition in a subtropical forest ecosystem	61
Optimization of a model for denitrification with batch and porous media experiments	61
Stable isotopes for the study of soil C and N under global change	48
Inhibitory effect of high nitrate on N2O reduction is offset by long moist spells in heavily N loaded arable soils	45
Fates of slurry-nitrogen applied to mountain grasslands: the importance of dinitrogen emissions versus plant N uptake	45
Recommendations about soil Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BNI) studies	42
Use of untargeted metabolomics to analyse changes in extractable soil organic matter in response to long-term fertilisation	42
Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation	41
Biological activities affect the dynamic of P in dryland soils	38
Halophyte functional groups influence seasonal variations in rhizosphere microbial necromass and enzyme activities in an inland saline ecosystem	36
Time between two partial rewetting events influences the respiration flush and microbial growth after the final rewetting	36
Inoculation and tracking of beneficial microbes reveal they can establish in field-grown potato roots and decrease blemish diseases	35
Climate warming in an alpine meadow: differential responses of soil faunal vs. microbial effects on litter decomposition	34
Isolation and characterization of Rhizobium from non-leguminous potato plants: New frontiers in Rhizobium research	33
Correction to: Type I methanotrophs dominated methane oxidation and assimilation in rice paddy fields by the consequence of niche differentiation	31
Bacteria from the rhizosphere of a selenium hyperaccumulator plant can improve the selenium uptake of a non-hyperaccumulator plant	30
Land use types affect soil microbial NO3− immobilization through changed fungal and bacterial contribution in alkaline soils of a subtropical montane agricultural landscape	30
The contribution of the phototrophic fraction in the fertility of different successional stages of induced biological soil crusts	30
Increases of N2O emissions due to enhanced nitrification in a sandy loam soil under long-term manure application	29
Soil-root interface influences the assembly of the endophytic bacterial community in rice plants	29
Metagenomic data highlight shifted nitrogen regime induced by wetland reclamation	29
Syringic acid from rice as a biological nitrification and urease inhibitor and its synergism with 1,9-decanediol	28
Spatial analysis of the root system coupled to microbial community inoculation shed light on rhizosphere bacterial community assembly	27

Temperature sensitivity of microbial respiration of soils amended with pine and oak litters is affected by tree growing CO2	26
Spring barley performance benefits from simultaneous shallow straw incorporation and top dressing as revealed by rhizotrons with resealable sampling ports	26
The effect of agroecosystem management on the distribution of C functional groups in soil organic matter: A review	26
Cover crops offset recalcitrant soil organic carbon losses under plastic-film mulching by altering microbial functional genes	25
Biochar application reduces residual napropamide in the rhizosphere and improves soil microbial diversity	24
Microbial carbon use efficiency of litter with distinct C/N ratios in soil at different temperatures, including microbial necromass as growth component	23
Correction to: Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation	23
Biochar amendment increases the abundance and alters the community composition of diazotrophs in a double rice cropping system	23
The active role of comammox Nitrospira in nitrification in acidic orchard soils revealed by DNA-SIP	22
Plant sexual variation modulates rhizospheric nutrient processes through the soil microbiome response to drought and rewetting in Populus cathayana	22
Estimation of baseline levels of bacterial community tolerance to Cr, Ni, Pb, and Zn in unpolluted soils, a background for PICT (pollution-induced community tolerance) determination	21
Utilisation and transformation of organic and inorganic nitrogen by soil microorganisms and its regulation by excessive carbon and nitrogen availability	21
Correction to: Dynamic changes in soil fungal communities and functional groups in response to sugarcane/soybean intercropping with reduced nitrogen fertilizer application	20
Lysis of soil microbial cells by CO2 or N2 high pressurization compared with chloroform fumigation	20
Correction to: Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	20
Root mucilage nitrogen for rhizosphere microorganisms under drought	20
Dry season residual straw reduces nitrous oxide emissions during rice season in upland-paddy rotation systems by inhibiting soil denitrification	19
Impact of the chemical composition of applied organic materials on bacterial and archaeal community compositions in paddy soil	19
Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks	19
Amplitude and frequency of wetting and drying cycles drive N2 and N2O emissions from a subtropical pasture	18
Effect of soil bacteriomes on mycorrhizal colonization by Rhizophagus irregularis—interactive effects on maize (Zea mays L.) growth under salt stress	18
A new incubation system to simultaneously measure N2 as well as N2O and CO2 fluxes from plant-soil mesocosms	18
Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	18
Common mycorrhizal networks benefit to the asymmetric interspecific facilitation via K exchange in an agricultural intercropping system	17
How tree species with contrasting biological nitrification inhibition capacity influence denitrifier activity and abundance? Insights from reciprocal transfers of soil	17
Responses of bacterial community composition and diversity to multi-level nitrogen addition at different periods of growing season driven by conditional rare taxa in an alpine meadow	17
Greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) emissions after abandonment of agriculture	17
Interaction between water, crop residue and fertilization management on the source-differentiated nitrogen uptake by rice	16
Plant residue-derived hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions contribute to the formation of soil organic matter	16
Foreword	16
Aridity-driven divergence in soil microbial necromass carbon in alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau	16
Difference in soil microbial necromass carbon accumulation induced by three crops straw mulching for 4 years in a citrus orchard	16
The priming effect dynamics are driven by microbial activation and growth and constrained by the relative availability of input C and soil N	16
Protists modulate active bacterial community composition in paddy field soils	16
Litter quality controls the contribution of microbial carbon to main microbial groups and soil organic carbon during its decomposition	16
Grassland conversion to cropland decreased microbial assimilation of mineral N into their residues in a Chernozem soil	15
Correction to: A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	15
Exploring polyphosphates in soil: presence, extractability, and contribution to microbial biomass phosphorus	15
Redox controls on anaerobic ammonium oxidation coupled to reduction of natural organic matter in paddy ecosystems	15
A new modeling approach for denitrification taking internal chemical gradients into account	15
Are lipids, phenylpropanoids, and benzenoids potential metabolite biomarkers for succession in desert biocrusts?	14
Synergism between feremycorrhizal symbiosis and free-living diazotrophs leads to improved growth and nutrition of wheat under nitrogen deficiency conditions	14
Nitrogen input differentially shapes the rhizosphere microbiome diversity and composition across diverse maize lines	14
Philip Charles Brookes, 23 March 1951 to 28 September 2023	14
Evidence of endophytic nitrogen fixation as a potential mechanism supporting colonization of non-nodulating pioneer plants on a glacial foreland	14
Spotting ethylene in forest soils—What influences the occurrence of the phytohormone?	14
Microbiome dynamics of soils covered by plastic and bioplastic mulches	14
Effects of military training, warfare and civilian ammunition debris on the soil organisms: an ecotoxicological review	14
Land use drives prokaryotic community composition of directly adjacent grasslands	13
Pre-sowing recurrent inoculation with Pseudomonas fluorescens promotes maize growth	13

Background soil nitrogen regulates the contribution of cover crop-derived nitrogen into subsequent crop	13
Root-derived C distribution drives N transport and transformation after 13C and 15 N labelling on paddy and upland soils	13
Yak dung pat fragmentation decreases yield-scaled growing-season nitrous oxide emissions in an alpine steppe on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	13
Nitrogen isotope enrichment predicts growth response of Pinus radiata in New Zealand to nitrogen fertiliser addition	13
Does liming improve microbial carbon use efficiency after maize litter addition in a tropical acidic soil?	12
Chimeric plants favor asynchrony of conditionally rare bacterial species facilitating functional complementarity in rhizosphere	12
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with contrasting life-history strategies differently affect health-promoting compounds in field-grown tomato by changing arbuscule occurrence and mycorrhizal assemblages i	12
Bioturbation as a means to circumvent sodium limitation by termites? Suspected processes and ecological consequences	12
Targeted regulation of the microbiome by green manuring to promote tobacco growth	12
Using fluorescence lifetime imaging to disentangle microbes from the heterogeneous soil matrix	12
Nonlinear response of soil nitric oxide emissions to fertilizer nitrogen across croplands	12
Dynamic changes in soil fungal communities and functional groups in response to sugarcane/soybean intercropping with reduced nitrogen fertilizer application	12
Impact of repeated irrigation of lettuce cultures with municipal wastewater on the diversity and composition of root-associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	12
Increased microbial carbon use efficiency and turnover rate drive soil organic carbon storage in old-aged forest on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	11
Characterization of maize root microbiome in two different soils by minimizing plant DNA contamination in metabarcoding analysis	11
Full-factorial resource amendment experiments reveal carbon limitation of rhizosphere microbes in alpine coniferous forests	11
Varying soil moisture and pH with alpine meadow degradation affect nitrogen preference of dominant species	11
Soil N2O flux and nitrification and denitrification gene responses to feed-induced differences in the composition of dairy cow faeces	11
Coupling of δ13C and δ15N to understand soil organic matter sources and C and N cycling under different land-uses and management: a review and data analysis	11
A 5-and a-half-year-experiment shows precipitation thresholds in litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions	11
Recommendations for plant growth-promoting bacteria inoculation studies	10
Special Issue: Recent advances in biology and fertility studies of paddy field soil	10
Linking microbial community dynamics to rhizosphere carbon flow depend on arbuscular mycorrhizae and nitrogen fertilization	10
Discrepancy in exchangeable and soluble ammonium-induced effects on aerobic methane oxidation: a microcosm study of a paddy soil	10
Plant growth–promoting bacteria improve maize growth through reshaping the rhizobacterial community in low-nitrogen and low-phosphorus soil	9
Assessing the impacts of tillage, cover crops, nitrification, and urease inhibitors on nitrous oxide emissions over winter and early spring	9
Variations in biomass of fungal guilds are primarily driven by factors related to soil conditions in Mediterranean Pinus pinaster forests	9
Contrasting effects of elevated CO2 on autotrophic prokaryotes with different CO2 fixation strategies in tea plantation soil	9
C:P stoichiometric imbalance between soil and microorganisms drives microbial phosphorus turnover in the rhizosphere	9
The causes of the selection of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) in relation to ecosystem functioning and a research agenda to explore them	9
Arbuscular and fine root-endophytic mycorrhizal fungi forage differently for nutrients in a seminatural temperate grassland	9
Organic fertilization drives shifts in microbiome complexity and keystone taxa increase the resistance of microbial mediated functions to biodiversity loss	9
Microbial and isotopomer analysis of N2O production pathways in a calcareous film-mulched farmland	9
Effects of synthetic nitrification inhibitor (3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate; DMPP) and biological nitrification inhibitor (methyl 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate; MHPP) on the gross N nitrification ra	9
Competition for nitrogen between plants and microorganisms in grasslands: effect of nitrogen application rate and plant acquisition strategy	9
Mechanism of increased soil phosphorus availability in a calcareous soil by ammonium polyphosphate	9
How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils	9
Editorial: Recent advances in biology and fertility studies of paddy field soil	9
Microbial control of soil organic matter dynamics: Effects of land use and climate change	9
3, 4-Dimethylpyrazole phosphate is an effective and specific inhibitor of soil ammonia-oxidizing bacteria	9
Sensitive control of N2O emissions and microbial community dynamics by organic fertilizer and soil interactions	8
A shift from nitrification to denitrification-dominated N2O emission in an acidic soil following organic amendment	8
Forest thinning alleviates the negative effects of precipitation reduction on soil microbial diversity and multifunctionality	8
Investigating protistan predators and bacteria within soil microbiomes in agricultural ecosystems under organic and chemical fertilizer applications	8
Higher ammonium-to-nitrate ratio shapes distinct soil nitrifying community and favors the growth of Moso bamboo in contrast to broadleaf tree species	8
Heterotrophic nitrification of organic nitrogen in soils: process, regulation, and ecological significance	8
Increasing phosphorus availability reduces priming effect by facilitating microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest soil	8
Strategy of endophytic bacterial communities in alfalfa roots for enhancing plant resilience to saline–alkali stress and its application	8
Phospholipid fatty acids in soil—drawbacks and future prospects	8
Nitrogen limitation in eucalypt roots: a cascading influence on the mobilization of soil organic matter	7
Nitrogen additions increase soil microbial nitrate- rather than ammonium- immobilization	7
Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation	7
Response of acetochlor degradation and bacterial community in black soil to the application of vermicompost	7
Linking soil aggregation to organic matter chemistry in a Calcic Cambisol: evidence from a 33-year field experiment	7
Hysteretic response of N2O reductase activity to soil pH variations after application of lime to an acidic agricultural soil	7
Gross N transformation rates in soil system with contrasting Urochloa genotypes do not confirm the relevance of BNI as previously assessed in vitro	7
OBITUARY	7
Nitrogen acquisition by two U. humidicola genotypes differing in biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) capacity and associated microorganisms	7
An innovative soil mesocosm system for studying the effect of soil moisture and background NO on soil surface C and N trace gas fluxes	7
Effects of soil water content at freezing, thaw temperature, and snowmelt infiltration on N2O emissions and denitrifier gene and transcript abundance during a single freeze-thaw event	7
Endophytic N2 fixation in sweet potato: responses to N, P, and K inputs and visualization of 15N2 utilizing bacterial cells via Raman spectroscopy	7
Greenhouse growth bioassay confirms soil nitrogen availability indicated by the flush of CO2	7
Application of isotopic labels optimised for large scale plot experiments	7
Rethinking discrepancies between difference and 15 N methods for estimating fertilizer nitrogen recovery	7
Assessment of phosphorus use and availability by contrasting crop plants in a tropical soil	7
Long-term egret (Egretta garzetta) habitation alters topsoil and subsoil phosphorus fractions and bacterial communities in coastal wetlands	7
Combined application of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and sodium selenite promotes tea seedling growth and selenium uptake by regulating the rhizosphere bacterial community	6
Plant Growth-Promoting Yeasts (PGPYs) as a sustainable solution to mitigate salt-induced stress on zucchini plant growth	6
High nitrogen uptake and utilization contribute to the dominance of invasive Spartina alterniflora over native Phragmites australis	6
Moderate effects of distance to air-filled macropores on denitrification potentials in soils	6
BNI-release mechanisms in plant root systems: current status of understanding	6
Nitrous oxide emissions and N-cycling gene abundances in a drip-fertigated (surface versus subsurface) maize crop with different N sources	6
Determining the effect of soil properties on the stability of scopoletin and its toxicity to target plants	6
Insights into the influence of intercropping and arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation on two modern durum wheat cultivars and their associated microbiota	6
Correction to: Inter-microbial competition for N and plant NO3- uptake rather than BNI determine soil net nitrification under intensively managed Brachiaria humidicola	6
Trunk injection of oxytetracycline improves plant performance and alters the active bark and rhizosphere microbiomes in huanglongbing-affected citrus trees	6
Effects of several long-term soil health treatments on populations of Pratylenchus penetrans and the soil microbial community	6
Phosphorus fertilization rather than nitrogen fertilization, growing season and plant successional stage structures arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community in a subtropical forest	6
Altered soil microbial properties and functions after afforestation increase soil carbon and nitrogen but not phosphorus accumulation	6
Correction to: Variations in biomass of fungal guilds are primarily driven by factors related to soil conditions in Mediterranean Pinus pinaster forests	6

Root exudation of contrasting drought-stressed pearl millet genotypes conveys varying biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) activity	5
Soil nitrification inhibition by urine of sheep consuming plantain (Plantago lanceolata)	5
Bio-organic fertilizer enhances soil mineral solubilization, microbial community stability, and fruit quality in an 8-year watermelon continuous cropping system	5
Metatranscriptomic analysis to reveal the coupling between nitrogen fixation and CH4 oxidation in root tissues of Phragmites australis	5
Biochar co-application mitigated the stimulation of organic amendments on soil respiration by decreasing microbial activities in an infertile soil	5
Saltwater incursion regulates N2O emission pathways and potential nitrification and denitrification in intertidal wetland	5
Long-term sod-based rotation promotes beneficial root microbiomes and increases crop productivity	5
Inoculation of the Morchella importuna mycosphere with Pseudomonas chlororaphis alleviated a soil-borne disease caused by Paecilomyces penicillatus	5
Variations in the composition of tea leaves and soil microbial community	5
Correction to: Denitrification in Agricultural Soils– Integrated control and Modelling at various scales (DASIM)	5
Short-term effect of liquid organic fertilisation and application methods on N2, N2O and CO2 fluxes from a silt loam arable soil	5
Soil pH and long-term fertilization affect gross N transformation and N2O production pathways in Chinese and UK croplands	5
Common soil history is more important than plant history for arbuscular mycorrhizal community assembly in an experimental grassland diversity gradient	5
Correction to: Biotic and abiotic controls on carbon storage in aggregates in calcareous alpine and prealpine grassland soils	5
Can potato cropping be made regenerative? Cover crops and dead organic mulch support soil microbial activity	5
Phosphate-solubilizing bacteria increase maize phosphorus uptake from magnesium-enriched poultry manure biochar	5
Type of pulse crop included in a 2-year rotation with wheat affects total N2O loss and intensity	5
Evidence of differences in nitrous oxide emissions and biological nitrification inhibition among Elymus grass species	5
The effects of soil incorporation depth of Biodiesel Co-Product (BCP) additions on N leaching losses and on genes involved in soil nitrogen cycling in an acidic Chinese tea soil	4
Crop growth is increased by arbuscular mycorrhizae for both phosphate rock and soluble phosphorus fertilizers, but fertilizer solubility primarily determines crop growth	4
Repeated litter inputs promoted stable soil organic carbon formation by increasing fungal dominance and carbon use efficiency	4
Microbial ammonium immobilization promoted soil nitrogen retention under high moisture conditions in intensively managed fluvo-aquic soils	4
Correction to: Soil microbial biomass phosphorus can serve as an index to reflect soil phosphorus fertility	4
Potassium phosphite enhanced the suppressive capacity of the soil microbiome against the tomato pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum	4
Mycorrhizal symbiosis balances rootstock-mediated growth-defence tradeoffs	4
Microorganisms regulate soil phosphorus fractions in response to low nocturnal temperature by altering the abundance and composition of the pqqC gene rather than that of the phoD gene	4
Pyrogenic organic matter decreases while fresh organic matter increases soil heterotrophic respiration through modifying microbial activity in a subtropical forest	4
Seed coat treatment by plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria Lysobacter antibioticus 13–6 enhances maize yield and changes rhizosphere bacterial communities	4
Biochar-based controlled-release fertilizers for enhancing plant growth and environmental sustainability: a review	4
Shifts in understory plant composition induced by nitrogen addition predict soil fungal beta diversity in a boreal forest	4
Forest litter decomposition stimulates heterotrophic nitrogen fixation by driving diazotrophic community interactions	4
Liming and nitrification inhibitor affects crop N uptake efficiency and N loss through changing soil N processes	4
Modified universal buffer does not necessarily maintain soil enzyme assay pH	4
Functional shift in soil microbiome with decline in photosynthetic carbon input signifies rapid decrease of soil organic carbon during alpine grassland degradation	4
A large nitrogen supply from the stable mineral-associated soil organic matter fraction	4
Loading of redox-active metal Fe largely enhances the capacity of biochar to mitigate soil N2O emissions by promoting complete denitrification	4
Rice endophytic communities are strongly dependent on microbial communities specific to each soil	4
Accelerating the development of biological nitrification inhibition as a viable nitrous oxide mitigation strategy in grazed livestock systems	4
Liming enhances the abundance and stability of nitrogen-cycling microbes: the buffering effect of long-term lime application	4
Fixation of CO2 by soil fungi: contribution to organic carbon pool and destination of fixed carbon products	4
Biochar significantly reduced nutrient-induced positive priming in a subtropical forest soil	4