OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology and Fertility of Soils is 12. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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

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
Temperature sensitivity of microbial respiration of soils amended with pine and oak litters is affected by tree growing CO2	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
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
Microbial carbon use efficiency of litter with distinct C/N ratios in soil at different temperatures, including microbial necromass as growth component	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
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
Interaction between water, crop residue and fertilization management on the source-differentiated nitrogen uptake by rice	16
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
Grassland conversion to cropland decreased microbial assimilation of mineral N into their residues in a Chernozem soil	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