Soil Biology & Biochemistry

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Dual isotopic (33P and 18O) tracing and solution 31P NMR spectroscopy to reveal organic phosphorus synthesis in organic soil horizons	572
Impact of grassland afforestation with contrasting tree species on soil phosphorus fractions and alkaline phosphatase gene communities	400
The unexplored role of preferential flow in soil carbon dynamics	393
Comparing plant litter molecular diversity assessed from proximate analysis and 13C NMR spectroscopy	207
Termite bioturbation: Fungal versus non-fungal building strategies lead to different soil sheeting stability	170
Warming shifts the biomass distribution of soil microarthropod communities	168
Tree species richness increases spatial variation but not overall wood decomposition	151
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Depth-dependent driver of global soil carbon turnover times	134
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Termite graveyards. Hidden geochemical patches?	111
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Obituary : Clive Arthur Tudor Edwards - 16 June 1925–20 July 2021	102
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Normalizing time in terms of space: What drives the fate of spring thaw-released nitrogen in a sloping Arctic landscape?	100
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	100

Earthworms as conveyors of mycorrhizal fungi in soils	98
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses	98
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	97
Decoupled responses of leaf and root decomposition to nutrient deposition in a subtropical plantation	97
Tracing sources and turnover of soil organic matter in a long-term irrigated dry forest using a novel hydrogen isotope approach	94
Susceptibility of new soil organic carbon to mineralization during dry-wet cycling in soils from contrasting ends of a precipitation gradient	93
Top-down effects on biological soil crust function	88
Belowground responses to altered precipitation regimes in two semi-arid grasslands	88
Will a legacy of enhanced resource availability accelerate the soil microbial response to future climate change?	87
Biochar strategy for long-term N2O emission reduction: Insights into soil physical structure and microbial interaction	84
Distinct N-cycling microbial communities contribute to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions from denitrification	84
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Deepened snow in combination with summer warming increases growing season nitrous oxide emissions in dry tundra, but not in wet tundra	82
Forest dieback switches the relationships between microfaunal bacterivore guilds and soil nutrients	81
Testing microbial models with data from a 14C glucose tracer experiment	81
Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models	78
Mitigating generative AI inaccuracies in soil biology	77
Seasonal changes in soil biofilm microbial communities	75
Sequestration of soil carbon by burying it deeper within the profile: A theoretical exploration of three possible mechanisms	74
Investigating drivers of free-living diazotroph activity in paddy soils across China	72
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure	72
Short-term soil fungal community dynamics following fire in mediterranean climate-type banksia woodlands	72
Resistance of microbial community and its functional sensitivity in the rhizosphere hotspots to drought	71
The positive role of root decomposition on the bioremediation of organic pollutants contaminated soil: A case study using PCB-9 as a model compound	71
Litter mixture effects on nitrogen dynamics during decomposition predominantly vary among biomes but little with litter identity, diversity and soil fauna	71
From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils	70
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	69
Biochar application differentially affects soil micro-, meso-macro-fauna and plant productivity within a nature restoration grassland	69
Global prediction of soil microbial growth rates and carbon use efficiency based on the metabolic theory of ecology	69
Tree species richness and N-fixing tree species enhance the chemical stability of soil organic carbon in subtropical plantations	69
Cropping system modulates the effect of spring drought on ammonia-oxidizing communities	68
Higher free-living N2 fixation at rock-soil interfaces than topsoils during vegetation recovery in karst soils	68
Disentangling the abiotic and biotic components of AMF suppressive soils	67
Can moisture affect temperature dependences of microbial growth and respiration?	67
Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands	65
Impact of common sample pre-treatments on key soil microbial properties	63
Shaping of soil microbial communities by plants does not translate into specific legacy effects on organic carbon mineralization	63
Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition	63
Effect of rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotype on yield: Evidence from recruiting spatially consistent rhizosphere microbiome	62
Casing soil microbiome mediates suppression of bacterial blotch of mushrooms during consecutive cultivation cycles	62
Response of soil microbial communities to mixed beech-conifer forests varies with site conditions	61
What drives leaf litter decomposition and the decomposer community in subtropical forests – The richness of the above-ground tree community or that of the leaf litter?	60
Protists modulate fungal community assembly in paddy soils across climatic zones at the continental scale	59
Importance of microbial communities at the root-soil interface for extracellular polymeric substances and soil aggregation in semiarid grasslands	59
Trophic interrelationships drive the biogeography of protistan community in agricultural ecosystems	59
Spatially-distributed microbial enzyme activities at intact, coated macropore surfaces in Luvisol Bt-horizons	59
Soil bacterial community functions and distribution after mining disturbance	58
Amino acid isotopes in functional assemblages of Collembola reveal the influence of vertical resource heterogeneity and root energy supply on trophic interactions in soil food webs	58
Measurements of fine root decomposition rate: Method matters	57
Polar soils exhibit distinct patterns in microbial diversity and dominant phylotypes	57

Adaptation of soil micro-food web to elemental limitation: evidence from the forest-steppe ecotone	57
A meta-analysis of phosphatase activity in agricultural settings in response to phosphorus deficiency	57
Long-term regional evidence of the effects of livestock grazing on soil microbial community structure and functions in surface and deep soil layers	56
Canonical ammonia oxidizers, rather than comammox Nitrospira, dominated autotrophic nitrification during the mineralization of organic substances in two paddy soils	56
Direction and magnitude of the change in water content between two periods influence soil respiration, microbial biomass and nutrient availability which can be modified by intermittent air-drying	56
Phosphorus fertiliser source determines the allocation of root-derived organic carbon to soil organic matter fractions	56
Seasonality drives microbiome composition and nitrogen cycling in soil below biocrusts	55
Nitrogen limitation of microbial activity in alpine tundra soils along an environmental gradient: Intra-seasonal variations and effect of rising temperature	55
Evidence for a genetic basis in functional trait tradeoffs with microbial growth rate but not growth yield	55
Biochar with large specific surface area recruits N2O-reducing microbes and mitigate N2O emission	55
Within-species plant phylogeny drives ectomycorrhizal fungal community composition in tree roots along a timberline	54
Specific utilization of biopolymers of plant and fungal origin reveals the existence of substrate-specific guilds for bacteria in temperate forest soils	54
How the Birch effect differs in mechanisms and magnitudes due to soil texture	54
Increasing plant species diversity enhances microbial necromass carbon content but does not alter its contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a subtropical forest	54
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	54
Earthworms facilitate stabilization of both more-available maize biomass and more-recalcitrant maize biochar on mineral particles in an agricultural soil	53
Iron oxidation coupled with nitrate reduction affects the acetate-assimilating microbial community structure elucidated by stable isotope probing in flooded paddy soil	52
Dynamics of root–microbe interactions governing crop phosphorus acquisition after straw amendment	52
Functional trait variation and community-weighted means of tree traits can alter soil microbial biomass and community composition	51
Mycorrhizal fungi-mediated uptake of tree-derived nutrients by crops – the role of tree-maintained versus crop-associated fungal mycelia	51
Response of soil organic carbon decomposition to intensified water variability co-determined by the microbial community and aggregate changes in a temperate grassland soil of northern China	51
A pulse of simulated root exudation alters the composition and temporal dynamics of microbial metabolites in its immediate vicinity	51
Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil	51
N2 fixation per unit microbial biomass increases with aridity	51
Drought accentuates the role of mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake	51
Stabilized microbial necromass in soil is more strongly coupled with microbial diversity than the bioavailability of plant inputs	50
Increase of temperature exacerbates the conversion of P fractions in organic horizon	50
Number of global change factors alters plant-soil feedbacks via its effect on soil fungal communities	50
Intercropping with legumes alleviates soil N limitation but aggravates P limitation in a degraded agroecosystem as shown by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry	49
Dominant herbaceous plants contribute to the spatial heterogeneity of beech and riparian forest soils by influencing fungal and bacterial diversity	49
Poly(L-lactide) mineralisation under environmental conditions is enhanced in earthworm guts	49
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with alpine meadow multifunctionality in a warmer climate with variable precipitation	49
The influence of forest-to-cropland conversion on temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration across tropical to temperate zones	49
Fourteen-year field experiment reveals neutral effects of N and P deposition on abundance and stoichiometric traits of the earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus in tropical plantations	49
Phase transformation of schwertmannite changes microbial iron and sulfate-reducing processes in flooded paddy soil and decreases arsenic accumulation in rice (Oryza sativa L.)	48
Spatial substrate heterogeneity limits microbial growth as revealed by the joint experimental quantification and modeling of carbon and heat fluxes	48
Increased soil organic carbon response to fertilization is associated with increasing microbial carbon use efficiency: Data synthesis	48
Virome responses to heating of a forest soil suggest that most dsDNA viral particles do not persist at 90°C	48
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	47
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	47
Tree species-dependent effects of urbanization and plant invasion on deadwood biota and decomposition rates	47
A rhizosphere effect promotes the persistence of gas oxidization activity in soil	47
Keystone bacterial functional module activates P-mineralizing genes to enhance enzymatic hydrolysis of organic P in a subtropical forest soil with 5-year N addition	46
Soil bacterial and fungal communities show within field heterogeneity that varies by land management and distance metric	46
Methane flux from transplanted soil monoliths depends on moisture, but not origin	45
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	45
Iron–organic carbon associations stimulate carbon accumulation in paddy soils by decreasing soil organic carbon priming	45
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	45
Short-term toxicity assessment of a triazine herbicide (terbutryn) underestimates the sensitivity of soil microorganisms	45
Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach	45
Are carbon-storing soils more sensitive to climate change? A laboratory evaluation for agricultural temperate soils	45
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	45
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale	44
New insights into the patterns of ecoenzymatic stoichiometry in soil and sediment	44
Nitrogen addition slows litter decomposition accompanied by accelerated manganese release: A five-year experiment in a subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest	44
Soil fungal community and mating type development of Tuber melanosporum in a 20-year chronosequence of black truffle plantations	44
Oxygen gas derived oxygen does not affect the accuracy of 18O-labelled water approach for microbial carbon use efficiency	43
Invasive Spartina alterniflora accelerates soil gross nitrogen transformations to optimize its nitrogen acquisition in an estuarine and coastal wetland of China	43
Opportunities and limits in imaging microorganisms and their activities in soil microhabitats	43
Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness	43
Ephemeral microbial responses to pulses of bioavailable carbon in oxic and anoxic salt marsh soils	42
Rice root Fe plaque enhances oxidation of microbially available organic carbon via Fe(III) reduction-coupled microbial respiration	42
Mosses stimulate soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation during vegetation restoration in a humid subtropical area	42
Biological denitrification inhibition (BDI) on nine contrasting soils: An unexpected link with the initial soil denitrifying community	42
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	41
Aridity thresholds of microbiome-soil function relationship along a climatic aridity gradient in alpine ecosystem	41
The effects of cadmium-copper stress on the accumulation of antibiotic-resistance genes in soil and pakchoi leaves	41
Study of soil heterotrophic respiration as a function of soil moisture under different land covers	41
Shifts in C-degradation genes and microbial metabolic activity with vegetation types affected the surface soil organic carbon pool	41
An optimised molecular-based method for ecological study of tardigrades in soils	40
Experimental evidence that poor soil phosphorus (P) solubility typical of drylands due to calcium co-precipitation favors autonomous plant P acquisition over collaboration with mycorrhizal fungi	40
The importance of rare versus abundant phoD-harboring subcommunities in driving soil alkaline phosphatase activity and available P content in Chinese steppe ecosystems	39
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	39
Nitrogen deposition stimulates decomposition via changes in the structure and function of litter food webs	39
The mechanisms underpinning microbial resilience to drying and rewetting – A model analysis	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
Root traits explain multitrophic interactions of belowground microfauna on soil nitrogen mineralization and plant productivity	39
The effects of tree-mycorrhizal type on soil organic matter properties from neighborhood to watershed scales	39
Distribution of phosphorus cycling genes across land uses and microbial taxonomic groups based on metagenome and genome mining	39
Energy flux across multitrophic levels drives ecosystem multifunctionality: Evidence from nematode food webs	39

Organic amendments, deficit irrigation, and microbial communities impact extracellular polysaccharide content in agricultural soils	38
The path less taken: Long-term N additions slow leaf litter decomposition and favor the physical transfer pathway of soil organic matter formation	38
Organic and inorganic sulfur and nitrogen uptake by co-existing grassland plant species competing with soil microorganisms	38
Heterotrophic nitrification – An eternal mystery in the nitrogen cycle	38
Microbial substrate stoichiometry governs nutrient effects on nitrogen cycling in grassland soils	38
Deepened snow cover accelerates litter decomposition by stimulating microbial degradation	38
Long-term N inputs shape microbial communities more strongly than current-year inputs in soils under 10-year continuous corn cropping	38
Seed treatment with plant-defense elicitors decreases the abundance of ammonia oxidizers associated with winter wheat roots	37
A synthesis of soil organic carbon mineralization in response to biochar amendment	37
Estimating the temperature optima of soil priming	37
Microbial organic matter reduction regulates methane and carbon dioxide production across an ombrotrophic-minerotrophic peatland gradient	37
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	37
The nitrogen gap in soil health concepts and fertility measurements	36
Biocrusts drive soil respiration across seasons and depths in a cold-winter desert	36
Nitrogen-15 natural abundance is robust to quantify nitrogen transfer from clover to grass in temporary grassland	36
Soil nutrient conditions alter viral lifestyle strategy and potential function in phosphorous and nitrogen metabolisms	36
Vegetation transition from meadow to forest reduces priming effect on SOM decomposition	36
Altered litter stoichiometry drives energy dynamics of food webs through changing multiple facets of soil biodiversity	36
Anaerobic oxidation of methane mitigates net methane production and responds to long-term experimental warming in a northern bog	35
No effect of long-term soil warming on diffusive soil inorganic and organic nitrogen fluxes in a temperate forest soil	35
Deepened snow enhances gross nitrogen cycling among Pan-Arctic tundra soils during both winter and summer	35
Phosphorus - A key element determining nitrous oxide emissions from boreal cultivated peat soil	35
Rhizosphere effects of woody plants on soil biogeochemical processes: A meta-analysis	35
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	34
Decadal application of mineral fertilizers alters the molecular composition and origins of organic matter in particulate and mineral-associated fractions	34
Wildland fire ash enhances short-term CO2 flux from soil in a Southern African savannah	34
Effects of microplastics on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a soil spiked with ZnO nanoparticles	34
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	34
Seasonality of gross ammonification and nitrification altered by precipitation in a semi-arid grassland of Northern China	34
Microbial community dynamics during decomposition of insect exuviae and frass in soil	33
Soluble phenols in litter are reduced during passage through the soil macrofauna gut due to the formation of insoluble complexes with proteins: A case study with isopods and Diptera larvae	33
Threats to the soil microbiome from nanomaterials: A global meta and machine-learning analysis	33
Differential effects of soil trophic networks on microbial decomposition activity in mountain ecosystems	33
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	33
Plant litter traits control microbial decomposition and drive soil carbon stabilization	32
Phosphorus-mediated succession of microbial nitrogen, carbon, and sulfur functions in rice-driven saline-alkali soil remediation	31
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	31
Lithologic control of microbial-derived carbon in forest soils	31
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and goethite promote carbon sequestration via hyphal-aggregate mineral interactions	31
Gross N transformations and plant N use efficiency in intensive vegetable production soils	31
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season	30
Corrigendum to “Impact of nitrogen addition on plant-soil-enzyme C–N–P stoichiometry and microbial nutrient limitation” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 170 (2022) 108714]	30
Drought mediates the response of soil fungal communities post-wildfire in a Californian grassland and coastal sage scrubland	30
Chronic enhanced nitrogen deposition and elevated precipitation jointly benefit soil microbial community in a temperate forest	30
Land use intensification homogenizes soil protist communities and alters their diversity across Europe	30
Large-scale patterns and drivers of soil organic nitrogen depolymerization	30
Pasture-crop rotations modulate the soil and rhizosphere microbiota and preserve soil structure supporting oat cultivation in the Pampa biome	30
Revegetation promotes soil mineral-associated organic carbon sequestration and soil carbon stability in the Tengger Desert, northern China	30
Life in the dark: Impact of future winter warming scenarios on carbon and nitrogen cycling in Arctic soils	30
Corrigendum to “Nitrite-dependent anaerobic oxidation decreases methane emissions from peatlands” [Soil Biology and Biochemistry 169, 108658]	30
Mechanisms behind high N2O emissions from livestock enclosures in Kenya revealed by dual-isotope and functional gene analyses	30
Invasive plant-derived dissolved organic matter alters microbial communities and carbon cycling in soils	30
Chemical identity of carbon substrates drives differences in denitrification and N2O reduction within agricultural soils	29
VNIR and MIR spectroscopy of PLFA-derived soil microbial properties and associated soil physicochemical characteristics in an experimental plant diversity gradient	29
Carbon stabilization pathways in soil aggregates during long-term forest succession: Implications from δ13C signatures	29
Strong conditionality in plant-fungal community assembly after soil inoculation in post-agricultural grasslands	29
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	29
Co-symbiosis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and diazotrophs promote biological nitrogen fixation in mangrove ecosystems	29
Soil sample sizes for DNA extraction substantially affect the examination of microbial diversity and co-occurrence patterns but not abundance	29
Pool complexity and molecular diversity shaped topsoil organic matter accumulation following decadal forest restoration in a karst terrain	29
Are enzymes transported in soils by water fluxes?	29
Microbiome structure and interconnection in soil aggregates across conservation and conventional agricultural practices allow to identify main prokaryotic and fungal taxa related to soil functioning	29
Community composition, and not species richness, of microbes influences decomposer functional diversity in soil	29
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Changes in soil bacterial and fungal community composition and functional groups during the succession of boreal forests	29
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome	29
Enlarging interface reverses the dominance of fungi over bacteria in litter decomposition	29
Decoupling soil community structure, functional composition, and nitrogen metabolic activity driven by salinity in coastal wetlands	28
Microbial metabolic capacity regulates the accrual of mineral-associated organic carbon in subtropical paddy soils	28
Can heavy metal pollution stress reduce microbial carbon-use efficiencies?	28
Dodder parasitism limited the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on litter decomposition	28
Different stochastic processes regulate bacterial and fungal community assembly in estuarine wetland soils	28
Revising the dynamic energy budget theory with a new reserve mobilization rule and three example applications to bacterial growth	28
Optimizing stand density for climate-smart forestry: A way forward towards resilient forests with enhanced carbon storage under extreme climate events	28
Congruent changes in microbial community dynamics and ecosystem methane fluxes following natural drought in two restored fens	28
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	28
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	28
Predicting measures of soil health using the microbiome and supervised machine learning	28
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	28
Biocrusts regulate the effect of rainfall pulses on soil respiration at different temporal scales on the Loess Plateau	28
Nitrogen application influences the effect of bacteria on the belowground allocation of photosynthesized carbon under elevated CO2	27
Obituary: Philip Charles Brookes: 26th March 1951–28th September 2023	27
Magnetic enzyme-mimetic minerals with peroxidase-like activity can contribute to measured soil peroxidase activity	27
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	27
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Clover increases N2O emissions in boreal leys during winter	27
Soil fauna actively change their diet to survive stress	27
Effects of copper contamination on N cycling microbial guilds and plant performance in two contrasting grassland soils	27
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2D distribution of Pseudomonas fluorescens activities at the soil-root interface of sunflower grown on vineyard soils: Effects on copper uptake	27
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	26
Priming is frequently overestimated in studies using 14C-labelled substrates due to underestimation of 14CO2 activity	26
Mutualistic interaction between arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi and soybean roots enhances drought resistant through regulating glucose exudation and rhizosphere expansion	26
Divergent responses of soil microorganisms to throughfall exclusion across tropical forest soils driven by soil fertility and climate history	26
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	26