Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Papers
(The median citation count of Soil Biology & Biochemistry 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils393
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective288
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously254
Recoupling C and N cycles: a fertiliser template to synchronise N supply and limit C priming?235
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems233
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter229
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils227
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage215
Biogeochemical response to drying-rewetting in riparian soils influences carbon mobilization214
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands214
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient213
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities199
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship194
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 moistur185
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions185
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient170
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling163
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems153
Microsites support microbial sulfate reduction in upland soils153
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil152
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web151
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest146
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil145
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Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems137
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs135
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux133
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture130
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition130
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient127
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat123
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching120
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe118
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau116
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition115
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils114
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database106
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps106
Some new grand questions in soil biology and biochemistry106
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives105
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification104
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow104
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality103
Long-term chemical fertilizer application enhances ammonia oxidizers-mediated soil carbon neutrality103
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests100
Rapid mineralization of mineral-bound carboxyl-carbon of salicylic acid and phenylalanine100
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils98
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest97
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon97
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota96
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels95
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype95
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications94
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces90
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization89
Nitrogen availability and mineral particles contributed fungal necromass to the newly formed stable carbon pool in the alpine areas of Southwest China89
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling88
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]87
Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland87
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The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves83
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis83
Decoupled responses of mycorrhizal fungal communities and function to recurrent wildfire83
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application82
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system81
Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands80
Manure application effects on subsoils: Abundant taxa initiate the diversity reduction of rare bacteria and community functional alterations80
Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors78
Biochar-influenced solubilization and mineralization mechanisms of phosphorus in saline-sodic soils77
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils73
Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity72
Similar mineral-associated organic carbon formation but distinct efficiencies by powdered wollastonite addition between two soils72
The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)72
Soil textural control on moisture distribution at the microscale and its effect on added particulate organic matter mineralization71
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils70
Carbon flow from roots to rhizobacterial networks: Grafting effects69
SOC stabilisation shifts from carbon accumulation in temperate soils to mineral association in subtropical soils69
Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device69
A global meta-analysis reveals the positive effect of invasive alien plants on soil heterotrophic respiration69
Coupling energy balance and carbon flux during cellulose degradation in arable soils69
Methane sink function of grassland soil microbiomes - negative effects of intensive management persist three years after land-use extensification68
Reductive dissolution of iron phosphate modifies rice root morphology in phosphorus-deficient paddy soils67
Soil carbon mineralization and microbial community dynamics in response to pyrogenic organic matter addition67
The newly proposed threshold for enzymatic stoichiometry: A reliable solution?67
Soil clay minerals: An overlooked mediator of gross N transformations in Regosolic soils of subtropical montane landscapes67
Soil legacies of a primary invader strongly drive secondary invasions for species that are phylogenetically distant67
Abundant and rare bacteria possess different diversity and function in crop monoculture and rotation systems across regional farmland67
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context66
Mixing with coniferous tree species alleviates rhizosphere soil phosphorus limitation of broad-leaved trees in subtropical plantations66
Organic cropping systems alter metabolic potential and carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling capacity of soil microbial communities64
Tillage and pesticide seed treatments have distinct effects on soil microbial diversity and function64
Drought shifts soil nematodes to smaller size across biological scales64
Disentangling carbon stabilization in a Calcisol subsoil amended with iron oxyhydroxides: A dual-13C isotope approach63
Alternate wetting-drying had no preferences for rice P uptake but increased microbial P allocation to phospholipids: Evidence from dual 32P and 33P labeling62
Root exudation and rhizosphere microbial assembly are influenced by novel plant trait diversity in carrot genotypes62
Energy and matter dynamics in an estuarine soil are more sensitive to warming than salinization62
Whole soil warming promotes surface soil carbon loss but deep soil carbon gain, depending on land management practices in temperate climate62
Effects of warming on bacterial growth rates in a peat soil under ambient and elevated CO262
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Soil nematode community profiling using reference-free mito-metagenomics60
Corrigendum to “Plant phenology modulates and undersown cover crops mitigate N2O emissions” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 198 (2024) 109548]60
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-glucosida60
Dynamic stability of mineral-associated organic matter: enhanced stability and turnover through organic fertilization in a temperate agricultural topsoil59
Mineral-bound lipid formation in soils and sediments: the importance of microbial pathways59
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Planar optodes reveal spatiotemporal heterogeneity of oxic and pH microenvironments driven by dung beetle activity in soil59
Primary carbon sources and self-induced metabolic landscapes shape community structure in soil bacterial hotspots59
Dose-response patterns of anaerobic oxidation of methane to nitrogen addition in Chinese paddy fields59
Nematode predation modulates the energetic dynamics of soil micro-food webs with consequences for soil multifunctionality59
Nitrifier controls on soil NO and N2O emissions in three chaparral ecosystems under contrasting atmospheric N inputs58
Disproportional oxidation rates of ammonia and nitrite deciphers the heterogeneity of fertilizer-induced N2O emissions in agricultural soils58
Spatiotemporal variation in soil methane uptake in a cool-temperate immature deciduous forest58
Molecular weight of dissolved organic matter determines its interactions with microbes and its assembly processes in soils58
Alterations in substrate stoichiometry control the responses of soil diazotrophs to nutrient enrichment58
How does organic amendment affect soil microbial nitrate immobilization rate?57
Forest restoration increases energy flow through the fungal channel and decreases energy flow through the herbivorous channel in soil micro-food webs56
Frequency and C:N:P stoichiometry of organic inputs determines intensity of net C balance in paddy soils56
Evaluation of the relation between soil biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and glomalin-related soil protein in conservation agriculture56
Fiddler crab bioturbation stimulates methane emissions in mangroves: Insights into microbial mechanisms56
Simplified estimates of soil nematode body mass using maximum diameter: Insights from large-scale grasslands across China56
Regulation of soil nitrogen cycling by shrubs in grasslands55
Tillage homogenizes soil bacterial communities in microaggregate fractions by facilitating dispersal55
Dynamic changes in bacterial community structure are associated with distinct priming effect patterns54
Rewetting alongside biochar and sulphate addition mitigates greenhouse gas emissions and retain carbon in degraded upland peatlands54
Divergent responses of soil glomalin and microbial necromass to precipitation reduction: New perspectives from soil aggregates and multi-trophic networks54
Modeling ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics in soil: The microbial dimension54
Root exudate stoichiometry is a key driver of soil N cycling: implications for forest responses to global change53
Litter diversity accelerates labile carbon but slows recalcitrant carbon decomposition53
Soil P availability and mycorrhizal type determine root exudation in sub-tropical forests53
Priming effect on soil carbon decomposition by root exudate surrogates: A meta-analysis53
Factors predictive of the biogeographic distribution of comammox Nitrospira in terrestrial ecosystems53
Phosphorus limitation regulates the responses of microbial carbon metabolism to long-term combined additions of nitrogen and phosphorus in a cropland52
Long-term soil warming decreases fungal biomass and alters fungal but not bacterial communities in a temperate forest52
A novel approach for calorespirometry: Integrating a CO2 sensor into an isothermal microcalorimeter for simultaneous measurement of microbial heat evolution and mineralization52
Microbial community assembly and its influencing factors of secondary forests in Qinling Mountains52
Unravelling the facilitation-competition continuum among ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi52
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Elevated CO2 and nitrogen interactively affect the rhizosphere priming effect of Cunninghamia lanceolata50
Aeolian dust deposition as a driver of cyanobacterial community structure in biological soil crusts50
N-induced soil acidification triggers metal stimulation of soil methane oxidation in a temperate steppe ecosystem50
Deciphering factors controlling decay and nitrogen accumulation in coarse wood debris of five tree species using 15N labeled wood disks50
The only constant is change: Endogenous circadian rhythms of soil microbial activities50
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Distinct seasonal and annual variability of prokaryotes, fungi and protists in cropland soil under different tillage systems and soil texture48
Preceding crop legacy modulates the early growth of winter wheat by influencing root growth dynamics, rhizosphere processes, and microbial interactions48
The soil microbial methylome: A tool to explore the role of epigenetic memory in driving soil abiotic legacy effects48
Earthworm influence on soil aggregate distribution and protected carbon at managed forest sites in Vermont, USA48
Restructuring of soil food webs reduces carbon storage potential in boreal peatlands48
Digging deeper: deep joint species distribution modeling reveals environmental drivers of Earthworm Communities48
Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils47
Degradation dynamics and microbial processes in yak dung on the Tibetan Plateau47
Bacterial necromass decomposition and priming effects in paddy soils depend on long-term fertilization47
Plant organ rather than cover crop species determines residue incorporation into SOC pools47
Back to the roots: Characterizing root exudates of dominant tundra plants to improve the understanding of plant-soil interactions in a changing arctic47
High stochasticity in rare bacterial community assembly in rice-wheat rotation soils at a regional scale47
Microplastics exert minor influence on bacterial community succession during the aging of earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) casts47
Interplanting leguminous shrubs boosts the trophic interactions of soil micro-food web in a karst grassland47
Carbon cycle in the microbial ecosystems of biological soil crusts45
Nitrogen addition increases the glucose-induced priming effect of the particulate but not the mineral-associated organic carbon fraction45
Linking Rock-Eval parameters to soil heterotrophic respiration and microbial residues in a black soil45
Seed treatment with plant-defense elicitors decreases the abundance of ammonia oxidizers associated with winter wheat roots44
Obituary : Clive Arthur Tudor Edwards - 16 June 1925–20 July 202144
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Seasonal changes in soil biofilm microbial communities43
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Wood decomposition in poorly-drained forested wetland soils: How important are termites?43
Controlling matric potential in microfluidics to examine microbial dynamics in unsaturated porous media43
Land use intensification homogenizes soil protist communities and alters their diversity across Europe41
Nitrogen-15 natural abundance is robust to quantify nitrogen transfer from clover to grass in temporary grassland41
Iron oxidation coupled with nitrate reduction affects the acetate-assimilating microbial community structure elucidated by stable isotope probing in flooded paddy soil41
Aridity thresholds of microbiome-soil function relationship along a climatic aridity gradient in alpine ecosystem41
Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil41
Adult body mass influences multi-element stoichiometry in ground beetles41
The role of the soil microbiome in the colonisation of glacier forefields by Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) under current and future climate change scenarios40
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 stress40
Distinct N-cycling microbial communities contribute to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions from denitrification40
Decoupled responses of leaf and root decomposition to nutrient deposition in a subtropical plantation40
Specific utilization of biopolymers of plant and fungal origin reveals the existence of substrate-specific guilds for bacteria in temperate forest soils40
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 warming39
Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models39
Global climate changes decoupled soil nitrogen mineralization and immobilization39
Deepened snow in combination with summer warming increases growing season nitrous oxide emissions in dry tundra, but not in wet tundra39
Biocrusts drive soil respiration across seasons and depths in a cold-winter desert39
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 rhizosphere38
Shifts in C-degradation genes and microbial metabolic activity with vegetation types affected the surface soil organic carbon pool38
Tracing sources and turnover of soil organic matter in a long-term irrigated dry forest using a novel hydrogen isotope approach38
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season38
Phosphorus-transforming microbes enhance phosphatase catalytic efficiency to alleviate phosphorus limitation under nitrogen and phosphorus additions in subtropical forest soil38
The influence of forest-to-cropland conversion on temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration across tropical to temperate zones38
Root exudates from drought-affected plants increase soil respiration across a range of grassland species37
The role of earthworms in the transformation of labile plant litter into mineral-associated organic matter37
Turnover of fungal glucosamine and bacterial muramic acid in comparison with soil organic carbon in two arable soils with distinct fungal communities37
Plant community composition and traits modulate the impacts of drought intensity on soil microbial community composition and function37
Time-varying associations between absorptive fine roots and leaf litter decomposition across 23 plant species37
Diversity loss of soil microbiome stimulates soil carbon emissions37
Linking microbial-mediated methane production in wetlands to invasive plants37
Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments37
Are enzymes transported in soils by water fluxes?37
Opposite priming responses to labile carbon versus oxygen pulses in anoxic peat36
Biocrusts regulate the effect of rainfall pulses on soil respiration at different temporal scales on the Loess Plateau36
Revising the dynamic energy budget theory with a new reserve mobilization rule and three example applications to bacterial growth36
Obituary: Philip Charles Brookes: 26th March 1951–28th September 202336
The ultimate fraction – Chemical characterization of humins from forest vs grassland soils36
Recording earthworm diversity on the tropical island of Martinique using DNA barcoding unveiled endemic species in bromeliad plants36
Mapping of suitable habitats for earthworms in China36
Paving the way for deeper insights into nematode community composition with long-read metabarcoding: ecological and biogeographical coverage of the sequences36
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Respiration and carbon use efficiency characteristics of soluble protein-derived carbon by soil microorganisms: A case study at afforested sites36
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-resolut35
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 probing35
Year-round activity of microbial communities in cold-climate peatlands treating mining-affected waters35
The size-variation of microplastics alters plant nitrogen uptake by regulating soil gross nitrogen transformation rates35
Increase in iron-bound organic carbon content under simulated sea-level rise: A “marsh organ” field experiment35
Responses of soil rare and abundant microorganisms to recurring biotic disturbances35
Plant functional groups shape microbial colonization and decomposition dynamics in grassland soils35
Phosphorus addition decreases soil fungal richness and alters fungal guilds in two tropical forests34
Interactive dynamics between rhizosphere bacterial and viral communities facilitate soybean fitness to cadmium stress revealed by time-series metagenomics34
Glucose input limits microbial-mediated sulfur release from soil minerals34
Sorption strength determines alanine mineralization in volcanic soils34
Insight into the role of competition in niche differentiation between ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in ammonium-rich alkaline soil: A network-based study34
Soil microbial metabolic strategies and the imbalance between available phosphorus and nitrogen controls the root exudate-induced priming effect by grassland tumbleweed (Cleistogenes squarrosa and Sap34
Earthworm invasion shifts trophic niches of ground-dwelling invertebrates in a North American forest33
Contrasting community responses of root and soil dwelling fungi to extreme drought in a temperate grassland33
Agronomic amendments drive a diversity of real and apparent priming responses within a grassland soil33
Different factors control organic matter degradation in bulk and rhizosphere soil from the top- and subsoils of three forest stands33
Getting to the root of the problem: Soil carbon and microbial responses to root inputs within a buried paleosol along an eroding hillslope in southwestern Nebraska, USA33
A full-length SSU rRNA-based workflow for high-resolution monitoring of nematode communities reveals direct and indirect responses to plant-based manipulations33
Increasing nitrogen availability does not decrease the priming effect on soil organic matter under pulse glucose and single nitrogen addition in woodland topsoil33
UV-B stress reshapes root-associated microbial communities and networks, driven by host plant resistance33
Bioavailable carbon additions to soil promote free-living nitrogen fixation and microbial biomass growth with N-free lipids32
Contrasting methanotrophic communities between upland and polygonal tundra and their link to nitrogen metabolism and methane uptake in the Western Canadian Arctic32
Advancing predictive understanding of tree organic and inorganic nitrogen uptake across forest biomes32
Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi colonisation stimulates uptake of inorganic nitrogen and sulphur but reduces utilisation of organic forms in tomato32
Multitrophic interactions support belowground carbon sequestration through microbial necromass accumulation in dryland biocrusts32
Microbial community regulation of extracellular enzyme production can mediate patterns of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter accumulation in undersaturated soils32
Combining multiple baiting cycles with digital droplet PCR optimizes description of the distribution of entomopathogenic nematodes in French maize fields32
Life at the extreme: Plant-driven hotspots of soil nutrient cycling in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert32
Land use determines the composition and stability of organic carbon in earthworm casts under tropical conditions32
Beyond PLFA: Concurrent extraction of neutral and glycolipid fatty acids provides new insights into soil microbial communities32
Accelerated soil nitrogen cycling in response to a whole ecosystem acid rain mitigation experiment32
Root exudation and fine texture interact to form anoxic microsites in rhizosphere soil32
Community of soil-inhabiting myxomycetes shares similar assembly mechanisms with fungi, and is affected by bacterial community in subtropical forests of China32
Tracing service crops' net carbon and nitrogen rhizodeposition into soil organic matter fractions using dual isotopic brush-labeling32
Microbial diversity is especially important for supporting soil function in low nitrogen ecosystems32
Long-term effects of manure addition on soil organic matter molecular composition: Carbon transformation as a major driver of energetic potential31
Litter decomposition rate response to multiple global change factors: A meta-analysis31
LC-MS analysis of D2O-labelled soil suggests a large fraction of membrane lipid exists within slow growing microbes31
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