Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Article	Citations
Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter	366
The microplastisphere: Biodegradable microplastics addition alters soil microbial community structure and function	252
Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems	236
A meta-analysis of global cropland soil carbon changes due to cover cropping	212
How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health	196
Microplastics in the agroecosystem: Are they an emerging threat to the plant-soil system?	193
Effects of microplastics on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a soil spiked with ZnO nanoparticles	147
Soil moisture mediates microbial carbon and phosphorus metabolism during vegetation succession in a semiarid region	142
The physical structure of soil: Determinant and consequence of trophic interactions	138
Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reflects the shift from P- to N-limitation of microorganisms with grassland restoration	116
Network analysis and subsequent culturing reveal keystone taxa involved in microbial litter decomposition dynamics	110
Soil microbial diversity and composition: Links to soil texture and associated properties	110
Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on microbial community composition and element cycling in a grassland soil	104
Deliberate introduction of invisible invaders: A critical appraisal of the impact of microbial inoculants on soil microbial communities	103
Changes in soil bacterial and fungal community composition and functional groups during the succession of boreal forests	103
Farmyard manure applications stimulate soil carbon and nitrogen cycling by boosting microbial biomass rather than changing its community composition	102
Network analysis reveals the strengthening of microbial interaction in biological soil crust development in the Mu Us Sandy Land, northwestern China	99
Negative effects of multiple global change factors on soil microbial diversity	98
Nutrient addition reduces carbon sequestration in a Tibetan grassland soil: Disentangling microbial and physical controls	95
Microbial necromass on the rise: The growing focus on its role in soil organic matter development	93
Global patterns and associated drivers of priming effect in response to nutrient addition	93
Organic amendments drive shifts in microbial community structure and keystone taxa which increase C mineralization across aggregate size classes	93
Does ecoenzymatic stoichiometry really determine microbial nutrient limitations?	89
Rewetting of soil: Revisiting the origin of soil CO2 emissions	87
Soil textural heterogeneity impacts bacterial but not fungal diversity	87

Soil aggregate size-dependent relationships between microbial functional diversity and multifunctionality	85
Similar drivers but different effects lead to distinct ecological patterns of soil bacterial and archaeal communities	84
Use of untargeted metabolomics for assessing soil quality and microbial function	82
Glomalin – Truths, myths, and the future of this elusive soil glycoprotein	82
Microbial communities in crop phyllosphere and root endosphere are more resistant than soil microbiota to fertilization	81
Soil microbial network complexity predicts ecosystem function along elevation gradients on the Tibetan Plateau	81
Application of biofertilizer containing Bacillus subtilis reduced the nitrogen loss in agricultural soil	80
Long-term high-P fertilizer input decreased the total bacterial diversity but not phoD-harboring bacteria in wheat rhizosphere soil with available-P deficiency	79
Fertilization changes soil microbiome functioning, especially phagotrophic protists	78
Sticky dead microbes: Rapid abiotic retention of microbial necromass in soil	77
Assembly of abundant and rare bacterial and fungal sub-communities in different soil aggregate sizes in an apple orchard treated with cover crop and fertilizer	77
How soil biota regulate C cycling and soil C pools in diversified crop rotations	77
Adaptive pathways of soil microorganisms to stoichiometric imbalances regulate microbial respiration following afforestation in the Loess Plateau, China	77
Changes in assembly processes of soil microbial communities during secondary succession in two subtropical forests	77
Long-term excess nitrogen fertilizer increases sensitivity of soil microbial community to seasonal change revealed by ecological network and metagenome analyses	77
Tradeoffs among microbial life history strategies influence the fate of microbial residues in subtropical forest soils	75
Decoupled diversity patterns in bacteria and fungi across continental forest ecosystems	74
Rusty sink of rhizodeposits and associated keystone microbiomes	74
Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition	73
Priming mechanisms providing plants and microbes access to mineral-associated organic matter	72
The ‘soil health’ metaphor: Illuminating or illusory?	72
Metagenomics and stable isotope probing reveal the complementary contribution of fungal and bacterial communities in the recycling of dead biomass in forest soil	71
Strong priming of soil organic matter induced by frequent input of labile carbon	70
Soil properties rather than climate and ecosystem type control the vertical variations of soil organic carbon, microbial carbon, and microbial quotient	69
From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils	69
Global biogeography of fungal and bacterial biomass carbon in topsoil	69
Prevalent root-derived phenolics drive shifts in microbial community composition and prime decomposition in forest soil	68
Microbial extracellular polysaccharide production and aggregate stability controlled by switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) root biomass and soil water potential	68
Organic fertilization promotes crop productivity through changes in soil aggregation	68
Increased contribution of root exudates to soil carbon input during grassland degradation	67
Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis	67
Management practices differently affect particulate and mineral-associated organic matter and their precursors in arable soils	67
An evaluation of carbon indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments	66
Biogeographic patterns of microbial co-occurrence ecological networks in six American forests	66
Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology	65
A quantitative assessment of amino sugars in soil profiles	64
Biochar stability and impact on soil organic carbon mineralization depend on biochar processing, aging and soil clay content	63
NosZ clade II rather than clade I determine in situ N2O emissions with different fertilizer types under simulated climate change and its legacy	62
Fungi determine increased soil organic carbon more than bacteria through their necromass inputs in conservation tillage croplands	62
Increasing contribution of microbial residues to soil organic carbon in grassland restoration chronosequence	62
Deterministic selection dominates microbial community assembly in termite mounds	61
Heterotrophic nitrification – An eternal mystery in the nitrogen cycle	60
Patterns and determinants of soil microbial residues from tropical to boreal forests	60
The role of plant input physical-chemical properties, and microbial and soil chemical diversity on the formation of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter	60
Deep-C storage: Biological, chemical and physical strategies to enhance carbon stocks in agricultural subsoils	59
Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates	59
Century long fertilization reduces stochasticity controlling grassland microbial community succession	59
The life of soils: Integrating the who and how of multifunctionality	58
Soil texture affects the coupling of litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation	58
Niche differentiation of clade A comammox Nitrospira and canonical ammonia oxidizers in selected forest soils	58

A global meta-analysis on freeze-thaw effects on soil carbon and phosphorus cycling	58
Root functional traits are key determinants of the rhizosphere effect on soil organic matter decomposition across 14 temperate hardwood species	57
Microbial carbon use efficiency in grassland soils subjected to nitrogen and phosphorus additions	57
Nematode-based indices in soil ecology: Application, utility, and future directions	56
Is litter decomposition enhanced in species mixtures? A meta-analysis	56
Biogeography and emerging significance of Actinobacteria in Australia and Northern Antarctica soils	56
Metagenomics reveals taxon-specific responses of the nitrogen-cycling microbial community to long-term nitrogen fertilization	55
Deciphering the relative importance of soil and plant traits on the development of rhizosphere microbial communities	55
Mycorrhizal fungi and phosphatase involvement in rhizosphere phosphorus transformations improves plant nutrition during subtropical forest succession	55
Predicting measures of soil health using the microbiome and supervised machine learning	55
Invasion by the weed Conyza canadensis alters soil nutrient supply and shifts microbiota structure	55
Soil phosphorus availability modifies the relationship between AM fungal diversity and mycorrhizal benefits to maize in an agricultural soil	55
Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands	54
Lysogenic reproductive strategies of viral communities vary with soil depth and are correlated with bacterial diversity	54
Drought accentuates the role of mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake	54
Temperatures beyond the community optimum promote the dominance of heat-adapted, fast growing and stress resistant bacteria in alpine soils	53
Rare fungus, Mortierella capitata, promotes crop growth by stimulating primary metabolisms related genes and reshaping rhizosphere bacterial community	53
Dissolved organic matter characteristics in soils of tropical legume and non-legume tree plantations	53
Direct and indirect influences of long-term fertilization on microbial carbon and nitrogen cycles in an alpine grassland	52
Can moisture affect temperature dependences of microbial growth and respiration?	52
Impact of nitrogen addition on plant-soil-enzyme C–N–P stoichiometry and microbial nutrient limitation	52
Plant carbon inputs through shoot, root, and mycorrhizal pathways affect soil organic carbon turnover differently	52
Different contribution of species sorting and exogenous species immigration from manure to soil fungal diversity and community assemblage under long-term fertilization	52
Release of phosphorus and silicon from minerals by soil microorganisms depends on the availability of organic carbon	51
Organic matter stabilization in aggregates and density fractions in paddy soil depending on long-term fertilization: Tracing of pathways by 13C natural abundance	51
Global effects on soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity depend on nitrogen addition rate	50
Sensitivity of soil carbon dynamics to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in an alpine meadow	50
Comparing root exudate collection techniques: An improved hybrid method	50
Root exudates shift how N mineralization and N fixation contribute to the plant-available N supply in low fertility soils	49
Straw chemistry links the assembly of bacterial communities to decomposition in paddy soils	49
Oxygen availability determines key regulators in soil organic carbon mineralisation in paddy soils	49
Fungal denitrification revisited – Recent advancements and future opportunities	49
Priming, stabilization and temperature sensitivity of native SOC is controlled by microbial responses and physicochemical properties of biochar	49
Organic matter chemistry and bacterial community structure regulate decomposition processes in post-fire forest soils	49
Continuous application of conservation tillage affects in situ N2O emissions and nitrogen cycling gene abundances following nitrogen fertilization	48
Rhizosphere hotspots: Root hairs and warming control microbial efficiency, carbon utilization and energy production	48
Effects of disturbance to moss biocrusts on soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and microbial communities in degraded karst landscapes in southwest China	48
Visualizing the transfer of organic matter from decaying plant residues to soil mineral surfaces controlled by microorganisms	48
Plant residue chemical quality modulates the soil microbial response related to decomposition and soil organic carbon and nitrogen stabilization in a rainfed Mediterranean agroecosystem	48
Functional compensation dominates the assembly of plant rhizospheric bacterial community	48
Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness	48
Initial soil formation by biocrusts: Nitrogen demand and clay protection control microbial necromass accrual and recycling	48
Rhizosphere microbial communities explain positive effects of diverse crop rotations on maize and soybean performance	48
Biochar with large specific surface area recruits N2O-reducing microbes and mitigate N2O emission	48
Primings of soil organic matter and denitrification mediate the effects of moisture on nitrous oxide production	47
Forest canopy maintains the soil community composition under elevated nitrogen deposition	47
Field application of pure polyethylene microplastic has no significant short-term effect on soil biological quality and function	47
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context	47
Abundance and functional importance of complete ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (comammox) versus canonical nitrifiers in temperate forest soils	45
Stoichiometric regulation of priming effects and soil carbon balance by microbial life strategies	45
Identification of microbial strategies for labile substrate utilization at phylogenetic classification using a microcosm approach	45
Earthworm mucus contributes to the formation of organo-mineral associations in soil	44
Microbial solubilization of silicon and phosphorus from bedrock in relation to abundance of phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria in temperate forest soils	43
Impacts of forest thinning on soil microbial community structure and extracellular enzyme activities: A global meta-analysis	43
Rice rhizodeposition promotes the build-up of organic carbon in soil via fungal necromass	43
Crop production correlates with soil multitrophic communities at the large spatial scale	43
Where and why do particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) differ among diverse soils?	43
Long-term diverse rotation alters nitrogen cycling bacterial groups and nitrous oxide emissions after nitrogen fertilization	43
Sonneratia apetala introduction alters methane cycling microbial communities and increases methane emissions in mangrove ecosystems	42
Quantification of the global impact of agricultural practices on soil nematodes: A meta-analysis	42
Modulation of the soil microbiome by long-term Ca-based soil amendments boosts soil organic carbon and physicochemical quality in a tropical no-till crop rotation system	42
Different stochastic processes regulate bacterial and fungal community assembly in estuarine wetland soils	42
Potential of crop-livestock integration to enhance carbon sequestration and agroecosystem functioning in semi-arid croplands	42
Long-term farmyard manure application affects soil organic phosphorus cycling: A combined metagenomic and 33P/14C labelling study	42
Earthworms accelerate the biogeochemical cycling of potentially toxic elements: Results of a meta-analysis	42
Nitrogen addition stimulates priming effect in a subtropical forest soil	42
Does the ratio of β-1,4-glucosidase to β-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminidase indicate the relative resource allocation of soil microbes to C and N acquisition?	42
Coarse mineral-associated organic matter is a pivotal fraction for SOM formation and is sensitive to the quality of organic inputs	41
Potential denitrification stimulated by water-soluble organic carbon from plant residues during initial decomposition	41
Nitrogen addition increases microbial necromass in croplands and bacterial necromass in forests: A global meta-analysis	41
Mineralization and nitrification: Archaea dominate ammonia-oxidising communities in grassland soils	41
Plant and microbial pathways driving plant diversity effects on soil carbon accumulation in subtropical forest	41
The biocontrol agent Streptomyces pactum increases Pseudomonas koreensis populations in the rhizosphere by enhancing chemotaxis and biofilm formation	40
Soil acidification modifies soil depth-microbiome relationships in a no-till wheat cropping system	40
Effects of elevated pH and phosphorus fertilizer on soil C, N and P enzyme stoichiometry in an acidic mixed mesophytic deciduous forest	40
Soil microbiome drives the recovery of ecosystem functions after fire	40
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry can reflect microbial resource limitation, substrate quality, or both in forest soils	39
Dynamic changes in bacterial community structure are associated with distinct priming effect patterns	39
Depth effects on bacterial community assembly processes in paddy soils	39
Resistance of microbial community and its functional sensitivity in the rhizosphere hotspots to drought	39

The contribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria to gross nitrification under different substrate availability	39
Soil microbial mechanisms promoting ultrahigh rice yield	39
Nitrogen addition alters composition, diversity, and functioning of microbial communities in mangrove soils: An incubation experiment	39
Resistant soil carbon is more vulnerable to priming effect than active soil carbon	39
Application of manure from cattle administered antibiotics has sustained multi-year impacts on soil resistome and microbial community structure	39
Differential accumulation of microbial necromass and plant lignin in synthetic versus organic fertilizer-amended soil	39
Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils	38
Rhizosphere microbiome assembly involves seed-borne bacteria in compensatory phosphate solubilization	38
Revisiting the quantitative contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon pool: Stoichiometric control by microbes and soil	38
Soil functional biodiversity and biological quality under threat: Intensive land use outweighs climate change	38
A critical perspective on interpreting amplicon sequencing data in soil ecological research	38
Interacting effects of land use type, microbes and plant traits on soil aggregate stability	38
Decreased rhizodeposition, but increased microbial carbon stabilization with soil depth down to 3.6 m	38
Distribution of phosphorus cycling genes across land uses and microbial taxonomic groups based on metagenome and genome mining	38
Organic phosphorus availability shapes the diversity of phoD-harboring bacteria in agricultural soil	38
Stable isotopes reveal that fungal residues contribute more to mineral-associated organic matter pools than plant residues	37
Dominant plants affect litter decomposition mainly through modifications of the soil microbial community	37
Effect of a tree mixture and water availability on soil nutrients and extracellular enzyme activities along the soil profile in an experimental forest	37
Sulfate addition and rising temperature promote arsenic methylation and the formation of methylated thioarsenates in paddy soils	37
The role of land management and elevation in shaping soil microbial communities: Insights from the Central European Alps	37
Biochar induces mineralization of soil recalcitrant components by activation of biochar responsive bacteria groups	37
Rhizosphere effects of woody plants on soil biogeochemical processes: A meta-analysis	37
Labile carbon facilitated phosphorus solubilization as regulated by bacterial and fungal communities in Zea mays	37
Sources and priming of soil N2O and CO2 production: Nitrogen and simulated exudate additions	37
Conversion to agroforestry and monoculture plantation is detrimental to the soil carbon and nitrogen cycles and microbial communities of a rainforest	37
Root and mycorrhizal strategies for nutrient acquisition in forests under nitrogen deposition: A meta-analysis	36
Improved global-scale predictions of soil carbon stocks with Millennial Version 2	36
Iron-bound organic carbon is conserved in the rhizosphere soil of freshwater wetlands	36
Abiotic and biotic regulation on carbon mineralization and stabilization in paddy soils along iron oxide gradients	36
Protists modulate fungal community assembly in paddy soils across climatic zones at the continental scale	36
Antibiotic resistance gene abundance and bacterial community structure in soils altered by Ammonium and Nitrate Concentrations	36
Warming promotes loss of subsoil carbon through accelerated degradation of plant-derived organic matter	36
Soil bacterial community functions and distribution after mining disturbance	36
Top-down effects of protists are greater than bottom-up effects of fertilisers on the formation of bacterial communities in a paddy field soil	35
Carbon nanotubes accelerate acetoclastic methanogenesis: From pure cultures to anaerobic soils	35
Microbial substrate stoichiometry governs nutrient effects on nitrogen cycling in grassland soils	35
Distinct factors drive the diversity and composition of protistan consumers and phototrophs in natural soil ecosystems	35
Co-symbiosis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and diazotrophs promote biological nitrogen fixation in mangrove ecosystems	35
Positive response of soil microbes to long-term nitrogen input in spruce forest: Results from Gårdsjön whole-catchment N-addition experiment	35
Mineralization of organic carbon and formation of microbial biomass in soil: Effects of clay content and composition and the mechanisms involved	35
Biochar alters nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in a western rangeland ecosystem	34
Soil macrofauna: Study problems and perspectives	34
Fungal extracellular polymeric substance matrices – Highly specialized microenvironments that allow fungi to control soil organic matter decomposition reactions	34
Evidence for involvement of keystone fungal taxa in organic phosphorus mineralization in subtropical soil and the impact of labile carbon	34
Long-term CO2 enrichment alters the diversity and function of the microbial community in soils with high organic carbon	34
Soil carbon balance by priming differs with single versus repeated addition of glucose and soil fertility level	33
Drought accelerated recalcitrant carbon loss by changing soil aggregation and microbial communities in a subtropical forest	33
Predicting the influence of fertilization regimes on potential N fixation through their effect on free-living diazotrophic community structure in double rice cropping systems	33
A core microbiota of the plant-earthworm interaction conserved across soils	33
Nutrient (C, N and P) enrichment induces significant changes in the soil metabolite profile and microbial carbon partitioning	33
The importance of rare versus abundant phoD-harboring subcommunities in driving soil alkaline phosphatase activity and available P content in Chinese steppe ecosystems	33
Loss of microbial diversity does not decrease γ-HCH degradation but increases methanogenesis in flooded paddy soil	33
Succession of the composition and co-occurrence networks of rhizosphere microbiota is linked to Cd/Zn hyperaccumulation	33
Historical climate legacies on soil respiration persist despite extreme changes in rainfall	33
Plants with an ammonium preference affect soil N transformations to optimize their N acquisition	32
Plant pathological condition is associated with fungal community succession triggered by root exudates in the plant-soil system	32
Mycorrhizal association of common European tree species shapes biomass and metabolic activity of bacterial and fungal communities in soil	32
Maize genotype-specific exudation strategies: An adaptive mechanism to increase microbial activity in the rhizosphere	32
Responses of soil ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea diversity to N, P and NP fertilization: Relationships with soil environmental variables and plant community diversity	32
Invasive plant-derived dissolved organic matter alters microbial communities and carbon cycling in soils	32
Synthesis of methods used to assess soil protease activity	32
Iron-bound carbon increases along a freshwater−oligohaline gradient in a subtropical tidal wetland	32
Carbon pathways in aggregates and density fractions in Mollisols under water and straw management: Evidence from 13C natural abundance	32
Active metabolic pathways of anaerobic methane oxidation in paddy soils	32
Gross nitrogen transformations in tropical pasture soils as affected by Urochloa genotypes differing in biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) capacity	32
Temperature and soil management effects on carbon fluxes and priming effect intensity	32
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and goethite promote carbon sequestration via hyphal-aggregate mineral interactions	32
Metagenomic reconstruction of nitrogen and carbon cycling pathways in forest soil: Influence of different hardwood tree species	32
Nitrogen-induced acidification plays a vital role driving ecosystem functions: Insights from a 6-year nitrogen enrichment experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow	32
Co-occurring increased phosphatase activity and labile P depletion in the rhizosphere of Lupinus angustifolius assessed with a novel, combined 2D-imaging approach	32
Turnover of gram-negative bacterial biomass-derived carbon through the microbial food web of an agricultural soil	32
Microdialysis in soil environments: Current practice and future perspectives	32
Rates of dark CO2 fixation are driven by microbial biomass in a temperate forest soil	32
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season	32
Microplastics effects on soil biota are dependent on their properties: A meta-analysis	32
Frequency of stover mulching but not amount regulates the decomposition pathways of soil micro-foodwebs in a no-tillage system	31
Soil DOC release and aggregate disruption mediate rhizosphere priming effect on soil C decomposition	31
Priming of soil organic carbon induced by sugarcane residues and its biochar control the source of nitrogen for plant uptake: A dual 13C and 15N isotope three-source-partitioning study	31
Global meta-analysis of terrestrial nitrous oxide emissions and associated functional genes under nitrogen addition	31
Microbial carbon use efficiency and priming of soil organic matter mineralization by glucose additions in boreal forest soils with different C:N ratios	31
Meta-analysis of the impact of freeze–thaw cycles on soil microbial diversity and C and N dynamics	31
Abundance of saprotrophic fungi determines decomposition rates of leaf litter from arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal trees in a subtropical forest	31
The chemodiversity of paddy soil dissolved organic matter is shaped and homogenized by bacterial communities that are orchestrated by geographic distance and fertilizations	30
Soil aggregate-mediated microbial responses to long-term warming	30
Physical mechanisms for soil moisture effects on microbial carbon-use efficiency in a sandy loam soil in the western United States	30
How do earthworms affect organic matter decomposition in the presence of clay-sized minerals?	30
Soil carbon dynamics during drying vs. rewetting: Importance of antecedent moisture conditions	30
Trade-offs in greenhouse gas emissions across a liming-induced gradient of soil pH: Role of microbial structure and functioning	30
You must choose, but choose wisely: Model-based approaches for microbial community analysis	30
Biochar amendment increases bacterial diversity and vegetation cover in trace element-polluted soils: A long-term field experiment	29
Impact of common sample pre-treatments on key soil microbial properties	29
Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and fungal denitrifier diversity are associated with N2O production in tropical soils	29
Chronic nitrogen addition differentially affects gross nitrogen transformations in alpine and temperate grassland soils	29
Root-induced fungal growth triggers macroaggregation in forest subsoils	29
Impact of grassland afforestation with contrasting tree species on soil phosphorus fractions and alkaline phosphatase gene communities	29