OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Pedobiologia is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Response of soil fauna to simulated global change factors depends on ambient climate conditions	24
Climate and soil properties regulate soil fungal communities on the Loess Plateau	16
Functional shifts of soil microbial communities associated with Alliaria petiolata invasion	15
Simulated nitrogen deposition decreases soil microbial diversity in a semiarid grassland, with little mediation of this effect by mowing	14
Significant effects on soil microbial communities were not detected after strategic tillage following 44 years of conventional or no-tillage management	14
Validation and extension of the Tea Bag Index to collect decomposition data from termite-rich ecosystems	13
Responses of oribatid mites to warming in boreal peatlands depend on fen type	13
The magnitude and direction of priming were driven by soil moisture and temperature in a temperate forest soil of China	13
Composition and interaction frequencies in soil bacterial communities change in association with urban park age in Beijing	12
Benefits of dual inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobia on Phaseolus vulgaris planted in a low-fertility tropical soil	12
Impact of soil nitrogen availability and pH on tropical heath forest organic matter decomposition and decomposer activity	12
Ecological restoration methods influence the structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in degraded drylands	11
Stability of soil organic carbon during forest conversion is more sensitive in deep soil than in topsoil in subtropical forests	11
Native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi respond to rehabilitation in iron ore mining areas from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon	11
Increases in substrate availability and decreases in soil pH drive the positive effects of nitrogen addition on soil net nitrogen mineralization in a temperate meadow steppe	11
Spatial and temporal patterns in soil organic carbon, microbial biomass and activity under different land-use types in a long-term soil-monitoring network	11
Nematode grazing increases the allocation of plant-derived carbon to soil bacteria and saprophytic fungi, and activates bacterial species of the rhizosphere	10
Decreased burrowing activity of endogeic earthworms and effects on water infiltration in response to an increase in soil bulk density	10
Topography is more important than forest type as a determinant for functional trait composition of Collembola community	9
Salinity changes root occupancy by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species	9
Evolutionary terrestrialization scenarios for soil invertebrates	9
Variability of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities within the root systems of individual plants is high and influenced by host species and root phosphorus	9
Tuber pseudohimalayense ascomata-compartments strongly select their associated bacterial microbiome from nearby pine forest soils independently of their maturation stage	9
Shifting prokaryotic communities along a soil formation chronosequence and across soil horizons in a South Taiga ecosystem	8
Crop residues in corn-wheat rotation in a semi-arid region increase CO2 efflux under conventional tillage but not in a no-tillage system	8

Using X-ray microtomography to characterize the burrowing behaviour of earthworms in heterogeneously polluted soils	8
Soil properties and climate affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil microbial communities in Mediterranean rainfed cereal cropping systems	8
Winter cover crops and no till management enhance enzyme activities in soybean field soils	8
Land management drives dynamic changes to microbial function through edaphic factors and soil biota	8
Irrigation and fertilization effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi depend on growing season in a dryland maize agroecosystem	8
Metabarcoding mites: Three years of elevated CO2 has no effect on oribatid assemblages in a Eucalyptus woodland	8
Litter inputs drive increases in topsoil organic carbon after scrub encroachment in an alpine grassland	7
Nitrogen enrichment affects soil enzymatic stoichiometry via soil acidification in arid and hot land	7
Tools for monitoring and study of peregrine pheretimoid earthworms (Megascolecidae)	7
Nematode contributions to the soil food web trophic structure of two contrasting boreal peatlands in Canada	7
Amazonian deforestation and its influence on soil biotic factors and abiotic properties	7
Earthworms did not increase long-term nitrous oxide fluxes in perennial forage and riparian buffer ecosystems	6
Metaproteomes reveal increased capacity for stress tolerance of soil microbes in ferruginous tropical rocky outcrops	6
Soil environment influences plant growth-promotion traits of isolated rhizobacteria	6
Soil and microbial nutrient status are heterogeneous within an elevational belt on a neotropical mountain	6
Dynamics of soil microarthropod populations affected by a combination of extreme climatic events in tropical home gardens of Kerala, India	5
Soil fauna groups respond differentially to changes in crop rotation cycles in rice production systems	5
Bar-HRM for identification of cryptic earthworm species	5
Belowground plant-plant signaling of root infection by nematodes	5
Tuber aestivum is associated with changes in soil chemistry and reduced biological quality in a Quercus pubescens stand in Northern Italy	5
Response of soil biodiversity to global change	5
Influence of understory vegetation on soil bacterial communities and nitrogen cycling gene abundance in cool-temperate and sub-alpine forests along an elevational gradient	5
Soil-dwelling arthropods as indicators of erosion in a South African grassland habitat	5
Trophic groups of soil fauna in semiarid: Impacts of land use change, climatic seasonality and environmental variables	4
Salinization causes abrupt reduction in soil nematode abundance in the Caatinga area of the Submedio San Francisco Valley, Brazilian semiarid region	4
Shade affects fine-root morphology in range-encroaching eastern redcedars (Juniperus virginiana) more than competition, soil fertility and pH	4
Impact of legumes on soil microbial activity and C cycle functions in two contrasting Cameroonian agro-ecological zones	4
Communities of Collembola show functional resilience in a long-term field experiment simulating climate change	4
Invasive earthworms Amynthas tokioensis and Amynthas agrestis alter macronutrients (Ca, Mg, K, P) in field and laboratory forest soils	4
Soil microbial community dynamics indicate disruption of nitrogen cycling by pollution in vegetation buffer zones	4
Stramenopiles and Cercozoa dominate the heterotrophic protist community of biological soil crusts irrespective of edaphic factors	4
Differential effects of nutrient addition and woody plant encroachment on grassland soil, litter and plant dynamics across a precipitation gradient	4
High-throughput sequencing and conventional morphotyping show different soil nematode assemblages but similar community responses to altitudinal gradients on Mt. Ibuki, Japan	4
Bacterial and fungal communities, but not physicochemical properties, of soil differ according to root rot status of pea	4
Determination of litter derived C and N in litterbags and soil using stable isotopes prevents overestimation of litter decomposition in alley cropping systems	4
Forest plantations reduce soil functioning in terrestrial ecosystems from South Africa	4
Distribution of physiochemically defined soil organic carbon pools and their relationship to the soil microbial community in grasslands	4
Fire effects on biochemical properties of a semiarid pine forest topsoil at cm-scale	4
Effects of defoliation frequencies on above- and belowground biodiversity and ecosystem processes in subtropical grasslands of southern Brazil	4
Nature development in degraded landscapes: How pioneer bioturbators and water level control soil subsidence, nutrient chemistry and greenhouse gas emission	4
Abundance, isolation, and characterization of halotolerant microbes from common oligosaline soils	3
Greater impacts of phosphorus fertilization on soil phosphatase activity in tropical forests than in non-tropical natural terrestrial ecosystems: A meta-analysis	3
Do local-scale context dependencies shape how ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity structures with reduced or sustained experimental N addition?	3
Changes in soil bacterial communities, and carbon and nitrogen metrics as potential indicators of land use effects in a humid tropical forest	3
Soil biotic effects and competition; What are the mechanisms behind being a successful invader?	3
Does metal pollution affect the stoichiometry of soil-litter food webs?	3
Agricultural practices influence biological soil quality indicators in an irrigated semiarid agro-ecosystem	3
Earthworms regulate the nematode community by directly enhancing the bacterial-based energy channel rather than through the effect of casts	3
Litter thickness and soil pH influence the diversity of saprotrophic fungi in primary forest fragments in the Amazon	3
Fast improvement of macrofauna communities and soil quality in plantain crops converted to agroecological practices	3

Oribatid (Acari: Oribatida) diversity in natural and altered open arid ecosystems of South-Eastern Caucasus	3
Litter decomposition and microbial communities alters depending on litter type and overstory species in revegetated agricultural land	3
Plant diversity decreases potential nitrous oxide emissions from restored agricultural soil	3
Responses of Collembola communities to mixtures of wheat varieties: A trait-based approach	3
Soil macrofaunal activity, microbial catabolic limitations and nutrient cycling in cropping systems amended with woody residues and nitrogen inputs	3
Litter arthropods community in multifunctional landscapes: Spatial and temporal complementarity of Brazilian ecosystems	3
Contributions of temporal and spatial variation to the diversity of soil-dwelling testate amoeba assemblages in a swampy forest	2
Drainage increases species richness and density of soil macro-invertebrates in the Zoige peatland of eastern Tibetan Plateau	2
Soil physicochemical properties shape distinct nematode communities in serpentine ecosystems	2
Weak effect of plant canopy but strong impact of depth on variation of cultivable microfungal communities through soil profiles in semiarid Spain	2
Cover crop selection affects maize susceptibility to the fungal pathogen Fusarium verticillioides	2
Variance, locality and structure: Three experimental challenges in the study of the response of soil microbial communities to multiple perturbations	2
Revegetation of mined areas influences the physiological profile of bacterial communities and improves the biochemical functions of soil	2
Shade tree identity rather than diversity influences soil macrofauna in cacao-based agroforestry systems	2
Soil metabolomics reveal complex interactions between Arthrobacter ureafaciens and Trichoderma harzianum when co-inoculated on wheat	2
Leaf-cutting ant (Atta cephalotes) nests may be hotspots of methane and carbon dioxide emissions in tropical forests	2
A standardized and miniaturized method to investigate rhizosphere microorganisms, with a focus on methanogenic archaea and methanotrophic bacteria	2
Mapping the effects of Melinis minutiflora invasion on soil nitrogen dynamics in the Brazilian savanna: A dual-isotope approach	2
Bioturbation by dung beetles and termites. Do they similarly impact soil and hydraulic properties?	2
Potential of slash-and-mulch system with legumes to conserve soil attributes and macrofauna diversity in Eastern Amazon	2
Three-dimensional mapping of earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) seed transport	2
Microbial P limitation in tropical forest soils could be overestimated: Insight from a sorption experiment and a meta-analysis	2
Effects of mound building Lasius flavus on organic carbon and nutrient fluxes in soils of temperate grassland ecosystems	2