Soil Biology & Biochemistry

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Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously	400
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands	298
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter	267
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems	242
Recoupling C and N cycles: a fertiliser template to synchronise N supply and limit C priming?	239
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities	236
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions	225
Microsites support microbial sulfate reduction in upland soils	223
A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils	223
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	217
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems	210
Disentangling the contribution of mycorrhizal fungi to soil organic carbon storage	197
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient	193
Biogeochemical response to drying-rewetting in riparian soils influences carbon mobilization	190
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils	176
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient	168
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective	159
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	158
Land-use driven changes in elemental stoichiometry decouple the positive soil biodiversity-stability relationship	153
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching	152
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition	150
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Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	144
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs	138
Microbial starch degradation in arid soil: Community dynamics, environmental influences, and archaeological implications	136

Some new grand questions in soil biology and biochemistry	135
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux	134
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	129
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels	124
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils	121
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil	120
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype	120
Rapid mineralization of mineral-bound carboxyl-carbon of salicylic acid and phenylalanine	117
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems	113
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web	112
Soil nitrogen availability increases the abundance of nitrogen-fixing plants in subtropical forests	111
Long-term chemical fertilizer application enhances ammonia oxidizers-mediated soil carbon neutrality	108
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow	108
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality	105
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest	104
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture	103
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification	103
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database	102
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest	102
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat	102
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe	102
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil	99
Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils	94
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon	91
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota	91
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives	91
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition	90
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	89
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces	88
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling	85
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Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland	84
Decoupled responses of mycorrhizal fungal communities and function to recurrent wildfire	84
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]	84
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis	83
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application	80
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system	79
Similar mineral-associated organic carbon formation but distinct efficiencies by powdered wollastonite addition between two soils	74
The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)	73
Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands	72
Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device	72
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils	71
Soil textural control on moisture distribution at the microscale and its effect on added particulate organic matter mineralization	71
Manure application effects on subsoils: Abundant taxa initiate the diversity reduction of rare bacteria and community functional alterations	71
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves	70
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization	70
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils	70
Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors	70
Carbon flow from roots to rhizobacterial networks: Grafting effects	69
Nitrogen availability and mineral particles contributed fungal necromass to the newly formed stable carbon pool in the alpine areas of Southwest China	69

A global meta-analysis reveals the positive effect of invasive alien plants on soil heterotrophic respiration	69
Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity	69
Biochar-influenced solubilization and mineralization mechanisms of phosphorus in saline-sodic soils	69
Soil legacies of a primary invader strongly drive secondary invasions for species that are phylogenetically distant	68
Alternate wetting-drying had no preferences for rice P uptake but increased microbial P allocation to phospholipids: Evidence from dual 32P and 33P labeling	67
Abundant and rare bacteria possess different diversity and function in crop monoculture and rotation systems across regional farmland	67
Energy and matter dynamics in an estuarine soil are more sensitive to warming than salinization	67
The newly proposed threshold for enzymatic stoichiometry: A reliable solution?	67
Methane sink function of grassland soil microbiomes - negative effects of intensive management persist three years after land-use extensification	66
SOC stabilisation shifts from carbon accumulation in temperate soils to mineral association in subtropical soils	66
Coupling energy balance and carbon flux during cellulose degradation in arable soils	65
Mixing with coniferous tree species alleviates rhizosphere soil phosphorus limitation of broad-leaved trees in subtropical plantations	64
Whole soil warming promotes surface soil carbon loss but deep soil carbon gain, depending on land management practices in temperate climate	64
Reductive dissolution of iron phosphate modifies rice root morphology in phosphorus-deficient paddy soils	63
Effects of warming on bacterial growth rates in a peat soil under ambient and elevated CO2	63
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context	63
Rapid assembly and functional differentiation of the soil surface microbiome in temperate agricultural soil	63
Soil carbon mineralization and microbial community dynamics in response to pyrogenic organic matter addition	63
Disentangling carbon stabilization in a Calcisol subsoil amended with iron oxyhydroxides: A dual-13C isotope approach	63
Tillage and pesticide seed treatments have distinct effects on soil microbial diversity and function	63
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Root exudation and rhizosphere microbial assembly are influenced by novel plant trait diversity in carrot genotypes	62
Drought shifts soil nematodes to smaller size across biological scales	62
Corrigendum to “Plant phenology modulates and undersown cover crops mitigate N2O emissions” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 198 (2024) 109548]	62
Organic cropping systems alter metabolic potential and carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling capacity of soil microbial communities	62
Evaluation of the relation between soil biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and glomalin-related soil protein in conservation agriculture	61
Spatiotemporal variation in soil methane uptake in a cool-temperate immature deciduous forest	61
Dynamic stability of mineral-associated organic matter: enhanced stability and turnover through organic fertilization in a temperate agricultural topsoil	61
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Dose-response patterns of anaerobic oxidation of methane to nitrogen addition in Chinese paddy fields	61
Nitrifier controls on soil NO and N2O emissions in three chaparral ecosystems under contrasting atmospheric N inputs	60
Forest restoration increases energy flow through the fungal channel and decreases energy flow through the herbivorous channel in soil micro-food webs	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-glucosida	59
Simplified estimates of soil nematode body mass using maximum diameter: Insights from large-scale grasslands across China	58
Mineral-bound lipid formation in soils and sediments: the importance of microbial pathways	58
Factors predictive of the biogeographic distribution of comammox Nitrospira in terrestrial ecosystems	57
Planar optodes reveal spatiotemporal heterogeneity of oxic and pH microenvironments driven by dung beetle activity in soil	57
Alterations in substrate stoichiometry control the responses of soil diazotrophs to nutrient enrichment	57
Long-term soil warming decreases fungal biomass and alters fungal but not bacterial communities in a temperate forest	57
Phosphorus limitation regulates the responses of microbial carbon metabolism to long-term combined additions of nitrogen and phosphorus in a cropland	56
Root exudate stoichiometry is a key driver of soil N cycling: implications for forest responses to global change	56
How does organic amendment affect soil microbial nitrate immobilization rate?	55
Rewetting alongside biochar and sulphate addition mitigates greenhouse gas emissions and retain carbon in degraded upland peatlands	55
Nematode predation modulates the energetic dynamics of soil micro-food webs with consequences for soil multifunctionality	55
Divergent responses of soil glomalin and microbial necromass to precipitation reduction: New perspectives from soil aggregates and multi-trophic networks	54
Dynamic changes in bacterial community structure are associated with distinct priming effect patterns	54
Soil nematode community profiling using reference-free mito-metagenomics	54
Modeling ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics in soil: The microbial dimension	54
Soil P availability and mycorrhizal type determine root exudation in sub-tropical forests	54
A novel approach for calorespirometry: Integrating a CO2 sensor into an isothermal microcalorimeter for simultaneous measurement of microbial heat evolution and mineralization	53
Microbial community assembly and its influencing factors of secondary forests in Qinling Mountains	53
Regulation of soil nitrogen cycling by shrubs in grasslands	53
Fiddler crab bioturbation stimulates methane emissions in mangroves: Insights into microbial mechanisms	53
Disproportional oxidation rates of ammonia and nitrite deciphers the heterogeneity of fertilizer-induced N2O emissions in agricultural soils	53
Unravelling the facilitation-competition continuum among ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi	53
Frequency and C:N:P stoichiometry of organic inputs determines intensity of net C balance in paddy soils	53
Priming effect on soil carbon decomposition by root exudate surrogates: A meta-analysis	53
Molecular weight of dissolved organic matter determines its interactions with microbes and its assembly processes in soils	52
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Tillage homogenizes soil bacterial communities in microaggregate fractions by facilitating dispersal	52
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Microplastics exert minor influence on bacterial community succession during the aging of earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) casts	50
Preceding crop legacy modulates the early growth of winter wheat by influencing root growth dynamics, rhizosphere processes, and microbial interactions	50
Digging deeper: deep joint species distribution modeling reveals environmental drivers of Earthworm Communities	50
Deciphering factors controlling decay and nitrogen accumulation in coarse wood debris of five tree species using 15N labeled wood disks	50
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Plant organ rather than cover crop species determines residue incorporation into SOC pools	49
The soil microbial methylome: A tool to explore the role of epigenetic memory in driving soil abiotic legacy effects	49
Aeolian dust deposition as a driver of cyanobacterial community structure in biological soil crusts	49
The only constant is change: Endogenous circadian rhythms of soil microbial activities	49
Distinct seasonal and annual variability of prokaryotes, fungi and protists in cropland soil under different tillage systems and soil texture	49
Interplanting leguminous shrubs boosts the trophic interactions of soil micro-food web in a karst grassland	48
Richard Bartha: 1934–2025	48
Back to the roots: Characterizing root exudates of dominant tundra plants to improve the understanding of plant-soil interactions in a changing arctic	47
Elevated CO2 and nitrogen interactively affect the rhizosphere priming effect of Cunninghamia lanceolata	46
High stochasticity in rare bacterial community assembly in rice-wheat rotation soils at a regional scale	46
Nitrogen addition increases the glucose-induced priming effect of the particulate but not the mineral-associated organic carbon fraction	45
Restructuring of soil food webs reduces carbon storage potential in boreal peatlands	45
Linking Rock-Eval parameters to soil heterotrophic respiration and microbial residues in a black soil	45

N-induced soil acidification triggers metal stimulation of soil methane oxidation in a temperate steppe ecosystem	44
Earthworm influence on soil aggregate distribution and protected carbon at managed forest sites in Vermont, USA	44
Carbon cycle in the microbial ecosystems of biological soil crusts	44
Degradation dynamics and microbial processes in yak dung on the Tibetan Plateau	44
Bacterial necromass decomposition and priming effects in paddy soils depend on long-term fertilization	43
Controlling matric potential in microfluidics to examine microbial dynamics in unsaturated porous media	43
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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	42
Adult body mass influences multi-element stoichiometry in ground beetles	42
Specific utilization of biopolymers of plant and fungal origin reveals the existence of substrate-specific guilds for bacteria in temperate forest soils	41
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	41
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Seed treatment with plant-defense elicitors decreases the abundance of ammonia oxidizers associated with winter wheat roots	41
The role of the soil microbiome in the colonisation of glacier forefields by Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) under current and future climate change scenarios	41
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Wood decomposition in poorly-drained forested wetland soils: How important are termites?	41
Iron oxidation coupled with nitrate reduction affects the acetate-assimilating microbial community structure elucidated by stable isotope probing in flooded paddy soil	40
Nitrogen-15 natural abundance is robust to quantify nitrogen transfer from clover to grass in temporary grassland	40
Global climate changes decoupled soil nitrogen mineralization and immobilization	40
The influence of forest-to-cropland conversion on temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration across tropical to temperate zones	40
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 stress	40
Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil	39
Aridity thresholds of microbiome-soil function relationship along a climatic aridity gradient in alpine ecosystem	39
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	39
Tracing sources and turnover of soil organic matter in a long-term irrigated dry forest using a novel hydrogen isotope approach	38
Shifts in C-degradation genes and microbial metabolic activity with vegetation types affected the surface soil organic carbon pool	38
Land use intensification homogenizes soil protist communities and alters their diversity across Europe	38
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Respiration and carbon use efficiency characteristics of soluble protein-derived carbon by soil microorganisms: A case study at afforested sites	38
Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models	38
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season	38
Biocrusts drive soil respiration across seasons and depths in a cold-winter desert	38
Revising the dynamic energy budget theory with a new reserve mobilization rule and three example applications to bacterial growth	38
Time-varying associations between absorptive fine roots and leaf litter decomposition across 23 plant species	38
Distinct N-cycling microbial communities contribute to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions from denitrification	38
Seasonal changes in soil biofilm microbial communities	38
Diversity loss of soil microbiome stimulates soil carbon emissions	38
Recording earthworm diversity on the tropical island of Martinique using DNA barcoding unveiled endemic species in bromeliad plants	38
Year-round activity of microbial communities in cold-climate peatlands treating mining-affected waters	37
Opposite priming responses to labile carbon versus oxygen pulses in anoxic peat	37
Turnover of fungal glucosamine and bacterial muramic acid in comparison with soil organic carbon in two arable soils with distinct fungal communities	37
Obituary: Philip Charles Brookes: 26th March 1951–28th September 2023	37
Paving the way for deeper insights into nematode community composition with long-read metabarcoding: ecological and biogeographical coverage of the sequences	36
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 Sap	36
Plant functional groups shape microbial colonization and decomposition dynamics in grassland soils	36
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 probing	36
Phosphorus-transforming microbes enhance phosphatase catalytic efficiency to alleviate phosphorus limitation under nitrogen and phosphorus additions in subtropical forest soil	36
Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments	36
Linking microbial-mediated methane production in wetlands to invasive plants	35
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	35
The ultimate fraction – Chemical characterization of humins from forest vs grassland soils	35
Glucose input limits microbial-mediated sulfur release from soil minerals	35
The role of earthworms in the transformation of labile plant litter into mineral-associated organic matter	35
Sorption strength determines alanine mineralization in volcanic soils	35
Plant community composition and traits modulate the impacts of drought intensity on soil microbial community composition and function	34
Mapping of suitable habitats for earthworms in China	34
Increase in iron-bound organic carbon content under simulated sea-level rise: A “marsh organ” field experiment	34
Bioavailable carbon additions to soil promote free-living nitrogen fixation and microbial biomass growth with N-free lipids	34
Responses of soil rare and abundant microorganisms to recurring biotic disturbances	34
The size-variation of microplastics alters plant nitrogen uptake by regulating soil gross nitrogen transformation rates	34
Root exudates from drought-affected plants increase soil respiration across a range of grassland species	34
Increasing nitrogen availability does not decrease the priming effect on soil organic matter under pulse glucose and single nitrogen addition in woodland topsoil	34
LC-MS analysis of D2O-labelled soil suggests a large fraction of membrane lipid exists within slow growing microbes	34
Phosphorus addition decreases soil fungal richness and alters fungal guilds in two tropical forests	34
Biocrusts regulate the effect of rainfall pulses on soil respiration at different temporal scales on the Loess Plateau	34
Interactive dynamics between rhizosphere bacterial and viral communities facilitate soybean fitness to cadmium stress revealed by time-series metagenomics	34
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, USA	34
Prolonged drought causes negative plant-soil feedbacks in grassland species under field conditions	34
Combining multiple baiting cycles with digital droplet PCR optimizes description of the distribution of entomopathogenic nematodes in French maize fields	33
Biocrusts modulate carbon losses under warming across global drylands: A bayesian meta-analysis	33
A full-length SSU rRNA-based workflow for high-resolution monitoring of nematode communities reveals direct and indirect responses to plant-based manipulations	33
Contrasting community responses of root and soil dwelling fungi to extreme drought in a temperate grassland	33
Contrasting methanotrophic communities between upland and polygonal tundra and their link to nitrogen metabolism and methane uptake in the Western Canadian Arctic	33
Long-term effects of manure addition on soil organic matter molecular composition: Carbon transformation as a major driver of energetic potential	33
Different factors control organic matter degradation in bulk and rhizosphere soil from the top- and subsoils of three forest stands	33
A comparison among EL-FAME, PLFA, and quantitative PCR methods to detect changes in the abundance of soil bacteria and fungi	33
Decadal nutrient addition reveals phosphorus limitation and its adaptive mechanisms in tropical rainforests	33
Soil calcium constrains nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates in subtropical karst regions	33
Tracing service crops' net carbon and nitrogen rhizodeposition into soil organic matter fractions using dual isotopic brush-labeling	33
Litter decomposition rate response to multiple global change factors: A meta-analysis	33
Environmental preferences of soil microbial attributes for long-term nitrogen and acid addition: From phylotype to community	33
Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi colonisation stimulates uptake of inorganic nitrogen and sulphur but reduces utilisation of organic forms in tomato	32
Microbial community regulation of extracellular enzyme production can mediate patterns of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter accumulation in undersaturated soils	32
Land use determines the composition and stability of organic carbon in earthworm casts under tropical conditions	32
Earthworm invasion shifts trophic niches of ground-dwelling invertebrates in a North American forest	32
Agronomic amendments drive a diversity of real and apparent priming responses within a grassland soil	32
Long-term fertilizer postponing promotes soil organic carbon sequestration in paddy soils by accelerating lignin degradation and increasing microbial necromass	32
Root exudation and fine texture interact to form anoxic microsites in rhizosphere soil	32
Stoichiometric regulation of priming effects and soil carbon balance by microbial life strategies	32
Multitrophic interactions support belowground carbon sequestration through microbial necromass accumulation in dryland biocrusts	31
Community of soil-inhabiting myxomycetes shares similar assembly mechanisms with fungi, and is affected by bacterial community in subtropical forests of China	31
Life at the extreme: Plant-driven hotspots of soil nutrient cycling in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert	31
How nitrifiers denitrify?	31
Beyond PLFA: Concurrent extraction of neutral and glycolipid fatty acids provides new insights into soil microbial communities	31
Root exudate-induced priming of CO2 and CH4 in a thawing permafrost peatland	31