Soil Biology & Biochemistry

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Soil viral community dynamics over seven years of heat disturbance: Spatial variation exceeds temporal in annually sampled soils	610
Microbial carbon use efficiency of mineral-associated organic matter is related to its desorbability	448
Adult body mass influences multi-element stoichiometry in ground beetles	419
Comparing plant litter molecular diversity assessed from proximate analysis and 13C NMR spectroscopy	220
Tree species-dependent effects of urbanization and plant invasion on deadwood biota and decomposition rates	211
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	178
Cropping system modulates the effect of spring drought on ammonia-oxidizing communities	174
Termite bioturbation: Fungal versus non-fungal building strategies lead to different soil sheeting stability	157
Tree species richness increases spatial variation but not overall wood decomposition	156
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Termite graveyards. Hidden geochemical patches?	113
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Obituary : Clive Arthur Tudor Edwards - 16 June 1925–20 July 2021	111
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Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	109

Dual isotopic (33P and 18O) tracing and solution 31P NMR spectroscopy to reveal organic phosphorus synthesis in organic soil horizons	107
Nitrogen addition slows litter decomposition accompanied by accelerated manganese release: A five-year experiment in a subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest	107
Oxygen gas derived oxygen does not affect the accuracy of 18O-labelled water approach for microbial carbon use efficiency	106
Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach	104
The unexplored role of preferential flow in soil carbon dynamics	104
Increasing plant species diversity enhances microbial necromass carbon content but does not alter its contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a subtropical forest	100
Global climate changes decoupled soil nitrogen mineralization and immobilization	99
Evidence for a genetic basis in functional trait tradeoffs with microbial growth rate but not growth yield	96
Pasture-crop rotations modulate the soil and rhizosphere microbiota and preserve soil structure supporting oat cultivation in the Pampa biome	96
Warming shifts the biomass distribution of soil microarthropod communities	95
The path less taken: Long-term N additions slow leaf litter decomposition and favor the physical transfer pathway of soil organic matter formation	90
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	90
Iron oxidation coupled with nitrate reduction affects the acetate-assimilating microbial community structure elucidated by stable isotope probing in flooded paddy soil	89
Normalizing time in terms of space: What drives the fate of spring thaw-released nitrogen in a sloping Arctic landscape?	89
Distribution of phosphorus cycling genes across land uses and microbial taxonomic groups based on metagenome and genome mining	88
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	88
Earthworms as conveyors of mycorrhizal fungi in soils	84
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	84
Depth-dependent driver of global soil carbon turnover times	83
A pulse of simulated root exudation alters the composition and temporal dynamics of microbial metabolites in its immediate vicinity	82
A meta-analysis of phosphatase activity in agricultural settings in response to phosphorus deficiency	81
Revegetation promotes soil mineral-associated organic carbon sequestration and soil carbon stability in the Tengger Desert, northern China	79
Ephemeral microbial responses to pulses of bioavailable carbon in oxic and anoxic salt marsh soils	77
Soil nutrient conditions alter viral lifestyle strategy and potential function in phosphorous and nitrogen metabolisms	76
Stabilized microbial necromass in soil is more strongly coupled with microbial diversity than the bioavailability of plant inputs	76
Litter mixture effects on nitrogen dynamics during decomposition predominantly vary among biomes but little with litter identity, diversity and soil fauna	76
Tracing sources and turnover of soil organic matter in a long-term irrigated dry forest using a novel hydrogen isotope approach	75
Susceptibility of new soil organic carbon to mineralization during dry-wet cycling in soils from contrasting ends of a precipitation gradient	75
Differential effects of soil trophic networks on microbial decomposition activity in mountain ecosystems	74
Phosphorus fertiliser source determines the allocation of root-derived organic carbon to soil organic matter fractions	74
Adaptation of soil micro-food web to elemental limitation: evidence from the forest-steppe ecotone	73
Top-down effects on biological soil crust function	72
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale	72
Will a legacy of enhanced resource availability accelerate the soil microbial response to future climate change?	72
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Distinct N-cycling microbial communities contribute to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions from denitrification	70
Deepened snow in combination with summer warming increases growing season nitrous oxide emissions in dry tundra, but not in wet tundra	69
Mitigating generative AI inaccuracies in soil biology	69
Testing microbial models with data from a 14C glucose tracer experiment	69
Aridity thresholds of microbiome-soil function relationship along a climatic aridity gradient in alpine ecosystem	68
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	68
Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands	67
Short-term soil fungal community dynamics following fire in mediterranean climate-type banksia woodlands	67
Investigating drivers of free-living diazotroph activity in paddy soils across China	67
Microbial substrate stoichiometry governs nutrient effects on nitrogen cycling in grassland soils	66
Wildland fire ash enhances short-term CO2 flux from soil in a Southern African savannah	66
Plant litter traits control microbial decomposition and drive soil carbon stabilization	66
Global prediction of soil microbial growth rates and carbon use efficiency based on the metabolic theory of ecology	65
Biochar application differentially affects soil micro-, meso-macro-fauna and plant productivity within a nature restoration grassland	65
Mosses stimulate soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation during vegetation restoration in a humid subtropical area	65

Shaping of soil microbial communities by plants does not translate into specific legacy effects on organic carbon mineralization	64
Impact of common sample pre-treatments on key soil microbial properties	64
Disentangling the abiotic and biotic components of AMF suppressive soils	64
Importance of microbial communities at the root-soil interface for extracellular polymeric substances and soil aggregation in semiarid grasslands	63
Protists modulate fungal community assembly in paddy soils across climatic zones at the continental scale	63
Spatially-distributed microbial enzyme activities at intact, coated macropore surfaces in Luvisol Bt-horizons	62
Trophic interrelationships drive the biogeography of protistan community in agricultural ecosystems	62
Measurements of fine root decomposition rate: Method matters	61
Within-species plant phylogeny drives ectomycorrhizal fungal community composition in tree roots along a timberline	60
Polar soils exhibit distinct patterns in microbial diversity and dominant phylotypes	60
Seasonality drives microbiome composition and nitrogen cycling in soil below biocrusts	60
Nitrogen limitation of microbial activity in alpine tundra soils along an environmental gradient: Intra-seasonal variations and effect of rising temperature	60
Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil	59
Functional trait variation and community-weighted means of tree traits can alter soil microbial biomass and community composition	59
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	59
N2 fixation per unit microbial biomass increases with aridity	59
Increase of temperature exacerbates the conversion of P fractions in organic horizon	58
Mycorrhizal fungi-mediated uptake of tree-derived nutrients by crops – the role of tree-maintained versus crop-associated fungal mycelia	58
Poly(L-lactide) mineralisation under environmental conditions is enhanced in earthworm guts	57
The influence of forest-to-cropland conversion on temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration across tropical to temperate zones	57
Dominant herbaceous plants contribute to the spatial heterogeneity of beech and riparian forest soils by influencing fungal and bacterial diversity	57
Number of global change factors alters plant-soil feedbacks via its effect on soil fungal communities	57
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	57
Phase transformation of schwertmannite changes microbial iron and sulfate-reducing processes in flooded paddy soil and decreases arsenic accumulation in rice (Oryza sativa L.)	56
A rhizosphere effect promotes the persistence of gas oxidization activity in soil	55
Spatial substrate heterogeneity limits microbial growth as revealed by the joint experimental quantification and modeling of carbon and heat fluxes	55
Soil bacterial and fungal communities show within field heterogeneity that varies by land management and distance metric	55
Virome responses to heating of a forest soil suggest that most dsDNA viral particles do not persist at 90°C	55
Are carbon-storing soils more sensitive to climate change? A laboratory evaluation for agricultural temperate soils	54
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	54
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	54
Soil fungal community and mating type development of Tuber melanosporum in a 20-year chronosequence of black truffle plantations	53
Methane flux from transplanted soil monoliths depends on moisture, but not origin	53
Opportunities and limits in imaging microorganisms and their activities in soil microhabitats	53
The effects of cadmium-copper stress on the accumulation of antibiotic-resistance genes in soil and pakchoi leaves	52
An optimised molecular-based method for ecological study of tardigrades in soils	52
Biological denitrification inhibition (BDI) on nine contrasting soils: An unexpected link with the initial soil denitrifying community	52
Study of soil heterotrophic respiration as a function of soil moisture under different land covers	52
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	51
Tree species richness and N-fixing tree species enhance the chemical stability of soil organic carbon in subtropical plantations	51
The role of the soil microbiome in the colonisation of glacier forefields by Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) under current and future climate change scenarios	51
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?	51
Effect of rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotype on yield: Evidence from recruiting spatially consistent rhizosphere microbiome	51
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	51
The effects of tree-mycorrhizal type on soil organic matter properties from neighborhood to watershed scales	50
Root traits explain multitrophic interactions of belowground microfauna on soil nitrogen mineralization and plant productivity	50
Organic and inorganic sulfur and nitrogen uptake by co-existing grassland plant species competing with soil microorganisms	50
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with alpine meadow multifunctionality in a warmer climate with variable precipitation	50
Deepened snow cover accelerates litter decomposition by stimulating microbial degradation	49
Long-term N inputs shape microbial communities more strongly than current-year inputs in soils under 10-year continuous corn cropping	49
Rhizosphere effects of woody plants on soil biogeochemical processes: A meta-analysis	48
Nitrogen-15 natural abundance is robust to quantify nitrogen transfer from clover to grass in temporary grassland	48
Anaerobic oxidation of methane mitigates net methane production and responds to long-term experimental warming in a northern bog	48
Vegetation transition from meadow to forest reduces priming effect on SOM decomposition	48
No effect of long-term soil warming on diffusive soil inorganic and organic nitrogen fluxes in a temperate forest soil	48
Seed treatment with plant-defense elicitors decreases the abundance of ammonia oxidizers associated with winter wheat roots	48
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	47
Threats to the soil microbiome from nanomaterials: A global meta and machine-learning analysis	47
Deepened snow enhances gross nitrogen cycling among Pan-Arctic tundra soils during both winter and summer	47
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	47
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	47
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	47
Corrigendum to “Nitrite-dependent anaerobic oxidation decreases methane emissions from peatlands” [Soil Biology and Biochemistry 169, 108658]	46
Life in the dark: Impact of future winter warming scenarios on carbon and nitrogen cycling in Arctic soils	46
Land use intensification homogenizes soil protist communities and alters their diversity across Europe	46
Gross N transformations and plant N use efficiency in intensive vegetable production soils	46
Rice root Fe plaque enhances oxidation of microbially available organic carbon via Fe(III) reduction-coupled microbial respiration	45
Biocrusts drive soil respiration across seasons and depths in a cold-winter desert	45
Soil bacterial community functions and distribution after mining disturbance	45
Biochar strategy for long-term N2O emission reduction: Insights into soil physical structure and microbial interaction	45
Corrigendum to “Impact of nitrogen addition on plant-soil-enzyme C–N–P stoichiometry and microbial nutrient limitation” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 170 (2022) 108714]	45
Canonical ammonia oxidizers, rather than comammox Nitrospira, dominated autotrophic nitrification during the mineralization of organic substances in two paddy soils	44
Impact of grassland afforestation with contrasting tree species on soil phosphorus fractions and alkaline phosphatase gene communities	44
The positive role of root decomposition on the bioremediation of organic pollutants contaminated soil: A case study using PCB-9 as a model compound	44
Organic amendments, deficit irrigation, and microbial communities impact extracellular polysaccharide content in agricultural soils	44
Lithologic control of microbial-derived carbon in forest soils	44
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	43
Iron–organic carbon associations stimulate carbon accumulation in paddy soils by decreasing soil organic carbon priming	43
The importance of rare versus abundant phoD-harboring subcommunities in driving soil alkaline phosphatase activity and available P content in Chinese steppe ecosystems	43
Microbial community dynamics during decomposition of insect exuviae and frass in soil	43

Seasonal changes in soil biofilm microbial communities	42
Microbial organic matter reduction regulates methane and carbon dioxide production across an ombrotrophic-minerotrophic peatland gradient	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	42
Decoupled responses of leaf and root decomposition to nutrient deposition in a subtropical plantation	42
Sequestration of soil carbon by burying it deeper within the profile: A theoretical exploration of three possible mechanisms	41
The spatial distribution of soil microbial necromass affects nutrient mobilization and beech nutrition on silicate and calcareous forest soils	41
Phosphorus-mediated succession of microbial nitrogen, carbon, and sulfur functions in rice-driven saline-alkali soil remediation	41
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure	41
The nitrogen gap in soil health concepts and fertility measurements	41
Long-term regional evidence of the effects of livestock grazing on soil microbial community structure and functions in surface and deep soil layers	40
Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models	40
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	39
Phosphorus - A key element determining nitrous oxide emissions from boreal cultivated peat soil	39
Increased soil organic carbon response to fertilization is associated with increasing microbial carbon use efficiency: Data synthesis	39
Belowground responses to altered precipitation regimes in two semi-arid grasslands	39
Biochar with large specific surface area recruits N2O-reducing microbes and mitigate N2O emission	39
Invasive Spartina alterniflora accelerates soil gross nitrogen transformations to optimize its nitrogen acquisition in an estuarine and coastal wetland of China	39
Forest dieback switches the relationships between microfaunal bacterivore guilds and soil nutrients	39
Earthworms facilitate stabilization of both more-available maize biomass and more-recalcitrant maize biochar on mineral particles in an agricultural soil	39
Dynamics of root–microbe interactions governing crop phosphorus acquisition after straw amendment	38
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses	38
Casing soil microbiome mediates suppression of bacterial blotch of mushrooms during consecutive cultivation cycles	38
Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition	38
Resistance of microbial community and its functional sensitivity in the rhizosphere hotspots to drought	38
Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness	38
Energy flux across multitrophic levels drives ecosystem multifunctionality: Evidence from nematode food webs	37
Response of soil microbial communities to mixed beech-conifer forests varies with site conditions	37
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and goethite promote carbon sequestration via hyphal-aggregate mineral interactions	37
Nitrogen deposition stimulates decomposition via changes in the structure and function of litter food webs	37
Intercropping with legumes alleviates soil N limitation but aggravates P limitation in a degraded agroecosystem as shown by ecoenzymatic stoichiometry	37
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	36
How the Birch effect differs in mechanisms and magnitudes due to soil texture	36
Chronic enhanced nitrogen deposition and elevated precipitation jointly benefit soil microbial community in a temperate forest	36
Altered litter stoichiometry drives energy dynamics of food webs through changing multiple facets of soil biodiversity	36
Invasive plant-derived dissolved organic matter alters microbial communities and carbon cycling in soils	36
From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils	35
The mechanisms underpinning microbial resilience to drying and rewetting – A model analysis	35
Specific utilization of biopolymers of plant and fungal origin reveals the existence of substrate-specific guilds for bacteria in temperate forest soils	35
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	35
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	34
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season	34
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	34
A synthesis of soil organic carbon mineralization in response to biochar amendment	34
Effects of microplastics on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a soil spiked with ZnO nanoparticles	34
Estimating the temperature optima of soil priming	34
New insights into the patterns of ecoenzymatic stoichiometry in soil and sediment	34
Heterotrophic nitrification – An eternal mystery in the nitrogen cycle	34
Shifts in C-degradation genes and microbial metabolic activity with vegetation types affected the surface soil organic carbon pool	33
Decadal application of mineral fertilizers alters the molecular composition and origins of organic matter in particulate and mineral-associated fractions	33
Preferential use of organic acids over sugars by soil microbes in simulated root exudation	33
Can moisture affect temperature dependences of microbial growth and respiration?	33
Higher free-living N2 fixation at rock-soil interfaces than topsoils during vegetation recovery in karst soils	33
Drought accentuates the role of mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake	33
Soil fauna actively change their diet to survive stress	32
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	32
Clover increases N2O emissions in boreal leys during winter	32
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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	32
Revising the dynamic energy budget theory with a new reserve mobilization rule and three example applications to bacterial growth	32
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity in agricultural fields is explained by the historical proximity to natural habitats	32
Magnetic enzyme-mimetic minerals with peroxidase-like activity can contribute to measured soil peroxidase activity	32
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Recording earthworm diversity on the tropical island of Martinique using DNA barcoding unveiled endemic species in bromeliad plants	32
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities of pristine rainforests and adjacent sugarcane fields recruit from different species pools	32
High trait diversity among soil arthropods allows their survival in a heterogeneous eco-agricultural mosaic	32
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Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	31
Humidity controls soil organic carbon accrual in grassland on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	31
Priming is frequently overestimated in studies using 14C-labelled substrates due to underestimation of 14CO2 activity	31
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	31
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	31
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Corrigendum to “Input of high-quality litter reduces soil carbon losses due to priming in a subtropical pine forest” [Soil Biology and Biochemistry 194 (2024) 109444]	31
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Moisture effects on microbial protein biosynthesis from ammonium and nitrate in an unfertilised grassland	30
Obituary: Philip Charles Brookes: 26th March 1951–28th September 2023	30
Effects of copper contamination on N cycling microbial guilds and plant performance in two contrasting grassland soils	30
Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments	30
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	30
Dodder parasitism limited the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on litter decomposition	30
Plant roots are more strongly linked to microorganisms in leaf litter rather than in soil across tropical land-use systems	30
Circum-Arctic peat soils resist priming by plant-derived compounds	30
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	30
Manganese indicates root decomposition rates across soil layer, root order, and tree species: Evidence from a subtropical forest	30
Divergent responses of soil microorganisms to throughfall exclusion across tropical forest soils driven by soil fertility and climate history	29
Niche construction by two ectomycorrhizal truffle species (Tuber aestivum and T. melanosporum)	29
Mechanisms behind high N2O emissions from livestock enclosures in Kenya revealed by dual-isotope and functional gene analyses	29
Use of metabolomics to quantify changes in soil microbial function in response to fertiliser nitrogen supply and extreme drought	29
Drought mediates the response of soil fungal communities post-wildfire in a Californian grassland and coastal sage scrubland	29
Rhizosphere microbial communities explain positive effects of diverse crop rotations on maize and soybean performance	29
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome	29
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation and plant response strongly shape bacterial and eukaryotic soil community trajectories	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
Opposite priming responses to labile carbon versus oxygen pulses in anoxic peat	28