Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Article	Citations
Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter	474
The microplastisphere: Biodegradable microplastics addition alters soil microbial community structure and function	331
Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems	316
Microplastics in the agroecosystem: Are they an emerging threat to the plant-soil system?	234
How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health	229
Effects of microplastics on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a soil spiked with ZnO nanoparticles	179
The physical structure of soil: Determinant and consequence of trophic interactions	174
Soil extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reflects the shift from P- to N-limitation of microorganisms with grassland restoration	140
Network analysis and subsequent culturing reveal keystone taxa involved in microbial litter decomposition dynamics	140
Soil microbial diversity and composition: Links to soil texture and associated properties	138
Changes in soil bacterial and fungal community composition and functional groups during the succession of boreal forests	132
Soil microbial network complexity predicts ecosystem function along elevation gradients on the Tibetan Plateau	129
Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on microbial community composition and element cycling in a grassland soil	129
Deliberate introduction of invisible invaders: A critical appraisal of the impact of microbial inoculants on soil microbial communities	128
Negative effects of multiple global change factors on soil microbial diversity	122
Microbial necromass on the rise: The growing focus on its role in soil organic matter development	112
Soil aggregate size-dependent relationships between microbial functional diversity and multifunctionality	112
Global patterns and associated drivers of priming effect in response to nutrient addition	106
Organic amendments drive shifts in microbial community structure and keystone taxa which increase C mineralization across aggregate size classes	106
Organic fertilization promotes crop productivity through changes in soil aggregation	102
Long-term excess nitrogen fertilizer increases sensitivity of soil microbial community to seasonal change revealed by ecological network and metagenome analyses	100
Tradeoffs among microbial life history strategies influence the fate of microbial residues in subtropical forest soils	99
Glomalin – Truths, myths, and the future of this elusive soil glycoprotein	95
Biochar stability and impact on soil organic carbon mineralization depend on biochar processing, aging and soil clay content	95
Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition	93

Application of biofertilizer containing Bacillus subtilis reduced the nitrogen loss in agricultural soil	92
Priming mechanisms providing plants and microbes access to mineral-associated organic matter	92
Sticky dead microbes: Rapid abiotic retention of microbial necromass in soil	90
From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils	90
How soil biota regulate C cycling and soil C pools in diversified crop rotations	90
Microbial communities in crop phyllosphere and root endosphere are more resistant than soil microbiota to fertilization	90
Global biogeography of fungal and bacterial biomass carbon in topsoil	88
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	87
Adaptive pathways of soil microorganisms to stoichiometric imbalances regulate microbial respiration following afforestation in the Loess Plateau, China	87
Increasing contribution of microbial residues to soil organic carbon in grassland restoration chronosequence	87
Fertilization changes soil microbiome functioning, especially phagotrophic protists	86
Changes in assembly processes of soil microbial communities during secondary succession in two subtropical forests	86
Long-term high-P fertilizer input decreased the total bacterial diversity but not phoD-harboring bacteria in wheat rhizosphere soil with available-P deficiency	86
An evaluation of carbon indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments	86
Fungi determine increased soil organic carbon more than bacteria through their necromass inputs in conservation tillage croplands	85
Deep-C storage: Biological, chemical and physical strategies to enhance carbon stocks in agricultural subsoils	84
Metagenomics and stable isotope probing reveal the complementary contribution of fungal and bacterial communities in the recycling of dead biomass in forest soil	84
The ‘soil health’ metaphor: Illuminating or illusory?	84
Management practices differently affect particulate and mineral-associated organic matter and their precursors in arable soils	84
Biogeographic patterns of microbial co-occurrence ecological networks in six American forests	83
Soil properties rather than climate and ecosystem type control the vertical variations of soil organic carbon, microbial carbon, and microbial quotient	82
Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology	80
Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis	80
Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness	79
Strong priming of soil organic matter induced by frequent input of labile carbon	78
The role of plant input physical-chemical properties, and microbial and soil chemical diversity on the formation of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter	78
Heterotrophic nitrification – An eternal mystery in the nitrogen cycle	75
Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates	74
Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands	74
The life of soils: Integrating the who and how of multifunctionality	74
Metagenomics reveals taxon-specific responses of the nitrogen-cycling microbial community to long-term nitrogen fertilization	73
Nematode-based indices in soil ecology: Application, utility, and future directions	72
Soil texture affects the coupling of litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation	72
Predicting measures of soil health using the microbiome and supervised machine learning	71
Patterns and determinants of soil microbial residues from tropical to boreal forests	71
A global meta-analysis on freeze-thaw effects on soil carbon and phosphorus cycling	70
Impact of nitrogen addition on plant-soil-enzyme C–N–P stoichiometry and microbial nutrient limitation	69
Deterministic selection dominates microbial community assembly in termite mounds	68
NosZ clade II rather than clade I determine in situ N2O emissions with different fertilizer types under simulated climate change and its legacy	68
Dissolved organic matter characteristics in soils of tropical legume and non-legume tree plantations	68
Century long fertilization reduces stochasticity controlling grassland microbial community succession	68
Root functional traits are key determinants of the rhizosphere effect on soil organic matter decomposition across 14 temperate hardwood species	68
Niche differentiation of clade A comammox Nitrospira and canonical ammonia oxidizers in selected forest soils	67
Stoichiometric regulation of priming effects and soil carbon balance by microbial life strategies	66
Root exudates shift how N mineralization and N fixation contribute to the plant-available N supply in low fertility soils	65
Deciphering the relative importance of soil and plant traits on the development of rhizosphere microbial communities	65
Rhizosphere microbial communities explain positive effects of diverse crop rotations on maize and soybean performance	64
Initial soil formation by biocrusts: Nitrogen demand and clay protection control microbial necromass accrual and recycling	64
Mycorrhizal fungi and phosphatase involvement in rhizosphere phosphorus transformations improves plant nutrition during subtropical forest succession	64
Can moisture affect temperature dependences of microbial growth and respiration?	63

Microplastics effects on soil biota are dependent on their properties: A meta-analysis	63
Global effects on soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity depend on nitrogen addition rate	63
Plant carbon inputs through shoot, root, and mycorrhizal pathways affect soil organic carbon turnover differently	63
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context	63
Where and why do particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) differ among diverse soils?	63
Plant residue chemical quality modulates the soil microbial response related to decomposition and soil organic carbon and nitrogen stabilization in a rainfed Mediterranean agroecosystem	62
Visualizing the transfer of organic matter from decaying plant residues to soil mineral surfaces controlled by microorganisms	62
Organic matter stabilization in aggregates and density fractions in paddy soil depending on long-term fertilization: Tracing of pathways by 13C natural abundance	62
Rare fungus, Mortierella capitata, promotes crop growth by stimulating primary metabolisms related genes and reshaping rhizosphere bacterial community	62
Comparing root exudate collection techniques: An improved hybrid method	62
Drought accentuates the role of mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake	61
Organic matter chemistry and bacterial community structure regulate decomposition processes in post-fire forest soils	61
Different contribution of species sorting and exogenous species immigration from manure to soil fungal diversity and community assemblage under long-term fertilization	60
Fungal denitrification revisited – Recent advancements and future opportunities	60
Temperatures beyond the community optimum promote the dominance of heat-adapted, fast growing and stress resistant bacteria in alpine soils	60
Continuous application of conservation tillage affects in situ N2O emissions and nitrogen cycling gene abundances following nitrogen fertilization	60
Biochar with large specific surface area recruits N2O-reducing microbes and mitigate N2O emission	59
Effects of disturbance to moss biocrusts on soil nutrients, enzyme activities, and microbial communities in degraded karst landscapes in southwest China	58
Field application of pure polyethylene microplastic has no significant short-term effect on soil biological quality and function	58
Functional compensation dominates the assembly of plant rhizospheric bacterial community	58
Direct and indirect influences of long-term fertilization on microbial carbon and nitrogen cycles in an alpine grassland	57
Crop production correlates with soil multitrophic communities at the large spatial scale	57
Straw chemistry links the assembly of bacterial communities to decomposition in paddy soils	56
Oxygen availability determines key regulators in soil organic carbon mineralisation in paddy soils	55
Identification of microbial strategies for labile substrate utilization at phylogenetic classification using a microcosm approach	55
Priming, stabilization and temperature sensitivity of native SOC is controlled by microbial responses and physicochemical properties of biochar	55
Improved global-scale predictions of soil carbon stocks with Millennial Version 2	55
Plant and microbial pathways driving plant diversity effects on soil carbon accumulation in subtropical forest	54
Sensitivity of soil carbon dynamics to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in an alpine meadow	54
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?	54
Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils	53
Biochar induces mineralization of soil recalcitrant components by activation of biochar responsive bacteria groups	53
Differential accumulation of microbial necromass and plant lignin in synthetic versus organic fertilizer-amended soil	52
Rhizosphere hotspots: Root hairs and warming control microbial efficiency, carbon utilization and energy production	52
Rice rhizodeposition promotes the build-up of organic carbon in soil via fungal necromass	52
Distribution of phosphorus cycling genes across land uses and microbial taxonomic groups based on metagenome and genome mining	52
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	51
Nitrogen addition increases microbial necromass in croplands and bacterial necromass in forests: A global meta-analysis	51
Different stochastic processes regulate bacterial and fungal community assembly in estuarine wetland soils	51
Coarse mineral-associated organic matter is a pivotal fraction for SOM formation and is sensitive to the quality of organic inputs	51
Long-term diverse rotation alters nitrogen cycling bacterial groups and nitrous oxide emissions after nitrogen fertilization	50
Impacts of forest thinning on soil microbial community structure and extracellular enzyme activities: A global meta-analysis	50
Soil acidification modifies soil depth-microbiome relationships in a no-till wheat cropping system	50
Quantification of the global impact of agricultural practices on soil nematodes: A meta-analysis	50
Rhizosphere microbiome assembly involves seed-borne bacteria in compensatory phosphate solubilization	50
Depth effects on bacterial community assembly processes in paddy soils	50
Primings of soil organic matter and denitrification mediate the effects of moisture on nitrous oxide production	49
A critical perspective on interpreting amplicon sequencing data in soil ecological research	49
Revisiting the quantitative contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon pool: Stoichiometric control by microbes and soil	49
Organic phosphorus availability shapes the diversity of phoD-harboring bacteria in agricultural soil	49
Nitrogen addition stimulates priming effect in a subtropical forest soil	49
Effects of elevated pH and phosphorus fertilizer on soil C, N and P enzyme stoichiometry in an acidic mixed mesophytic deciduous forest	48
Long-term farmyard manure application affects soil organic phosphorus cycling: A combined metagenomic and 33P/14C labelling study	48
Application of manure from cattle administered antibiotics has sustained multi-year impacts on soil resistome and microbial community structure	48
Decreased rhizodeposition, but increased microbial carbon stabilization with soil depth down to 3.6 m	47
Fungal extracellular polymeric substance matrices – Highly specialized microenvironments that allow fungi to control soil organic matter decomposition reactions	47
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry can reflect microbial resource limitation, substrate quality, or both in forest soils	47
Labile carbon facilitated phosphorus solubilization as regulated by bacterial and fungal communities in Zea mays	47
The contribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria to gross nitrification under different substrate availability	47
Earthworms accelerate the biogeochemical cycling of potentially toxic elements: Results of a meta-analysis	47
Microbial solubilization of silicon and phosphorus from bedrock in relation to abundance of phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria in temperate forest soils	46
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season	46
Co-symbiosis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and diazotrophs promote biological nitrogen fixation in mangrove ecosystems	46
Mineralization of organic carbon and formation of microbial biomass in soil: Effects of clay content and composition and the mechanisms involved	46
Meta-analysis of the impact of freeze–thaw cycles on soil microbial diversity and C and N dynamics	45
Resistant soil carbon is more vulnerable to priming effect than active soil carbon	45
Turnover of gram-negative bacterial biomass-derived carbon through the microbial food web of an agricultural soil	45
Rhizosphere effects of woody plants on soil biogeochemical processes: A meta-analysis	45
Stable isotopes reveal that fungal residues contribute more to mineral-associated organic matter pools than plant residues	45
Abiotic and biotic regulation on carbon mineralization and stabilization in paddy soils along iron oxide gradients	45
Active metabolic pathways of anaerobic methane oxidation in paddy soils	45
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and goethite promote carbon sequestration via hyphal-aggregate mineral interactions	45
Interacting effects of land use type, microbes and plant traits on soil aggregate stability	45
Potential of crop-livestock integration to enhance carbon sequestration and agroecosystem functioning in semi-arid croplands	45
Soil microbiome drives the recovery of ecosystem functions after fire	45
Nitrogen addition alters composition, diversity, and functioning of microbial communities in mangrove soils: An incubation experiment	45
Resistance of microbial community and its functional sensitivity in the rhizosphere hotspots to drought	45
Global meta-analysis of terrestrial nitrous oxide emissions and associated functional genes under nitrogen addition	44
The importance of rare versus abundant phoD-harboring subcommunities in driving soil alkaline phosphatase activity and available P content in Chinese steppe ecosystems	44
Distinct factors drive the diversity and composition of protistan consumers and phototrophs in natural soil ecosystems	44

Soil macrofauna: Study problems and perspectives	43
Iron-bound organic carbon is conserved in the rhizosphere soil of freshwater wetlands	43
Priming effects induced by degradable microplastics in agricultural soils	43
Sulfate addition and rising temperature promote arsenic methylation and the formation of methylated thioarsenates in paddy soils	43
Dynamic changes in bacterial community structure are associated with distinct priming effect patterns	43
Warming promotes loss of subsoil carbon through accelerated degradation of plant-derived organic matter	43
Dominant plants affect litter decomposition mainly through modifications of the soil microbial community	43
Antibiotic resistance gene abundance and bacterial community structure in soils altered by Ammonium and Nitrate Concentrations	42
Plant-derived lipids play a crucial role in forest soil carbon accumulation	42
Soil enzyme stoichiometry is tightly linked to microbial community composition in successional ecosystems after glacier retreat	42
Nutrient (C, N and P) enrichment induces significant changes in the soil metabolite profile and microbial carbon partitioning	42
Protists modulate fungal community assembly in paddy soils across climatic zones at the continental scale	42
Drought accelerated recalcitrant carbon loss by changing soil aggregation and microbial communities in a subtropical forest	41
Microbial substrate stoichiometry governs nutrient effects on nitrogen cycling in grassland soils	41
Loss of microbial diversity does not decrease γ-HCH degradation but increases methanogenesis in flooded paddy soil	41
Effect of a tree mixture and water availability on soil nutrients and extracellular enzyme activities along the soil profile in an experimental forest	41
Top-down effects of protists are greater than bottom-up effects of fertilisers on the formation of bacterial communities in a paddy field soil	41
Soil bacterial community functions and distribution after mining disturbance	41
Estimating microbial carbon use efficiency in soil: Isotope-based and enzyme-based methods measure fundamentally different aspects of microbial resource use	40
The role of land management and elevation in shaping soil microbial communities: Insights from the Central European Alps	39
Grassland degradation-induced declines in soil fungal complexity reduce fungal community stability and ecosystem multifunctionality	39
Microbial carbon use efficiency and priming of soil organic matter mineralization by glucose additions in boreal forest soils with different C:N ratios	39
Chronic nitrogen addition differentially affects gross nitrogen transformations in alpine and temperate grassland soils	39
Microbial community succession in soil is mainly driven by carbon and nitrogen contents rather than phosphorus and sulphur contents	39
Nitrogen-induced acidification plays a vital role driving ecosystem functions: Insights from a 6-year nitrogen enrichment experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow	39
Carbon nanotubes accelerate acetoclastic methanogenesis: From pure cultures to anaerobic soils	39
Rates of dark CO2 fixation are driven by microbial biomass in a temperate forest soil	39
Maize root exudate composition alters rhizosphere bacterial community to control hotspots of hydrolase activity in response to nitrogen supply	39
Trade-offs in greenhouse gas emissions across a liming-induced gradient of soil pH: Role of microbial structure and functioning	39
Succession of the composition and co-occurrence networks of rhizosphere microbiota is linked to Cd/Zn hyperaccumulation	39
Plants with an ammonium preference affect soil N transformations to optimize their N acquisition	38
Iron-bound carbon increases along a freshwater−oligohaline gradient in a subtropical tidal wetland	38
Carbon pathways in aggregates and density fractions in Mollisols under water and straw management: Evidence from 13C natural abundance	38
Invasive plant-derived dissolved organic matter alters microbial communities and carbon cycling in soils	38
Biochar alters nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in a western rangeland ecosystem	38
Sources and priming of soil N2O and CO2 production: Nitrogen and simulated exudate additions	38
Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity	38
Long-term organic fertilization promotes the resilience of soil multifunctionality driven by bacterial communities	38
Soil aggregate-mediated microbial responses to long-term warming	38
Root and mycorrhizal strategies for nutrient acquisition in forests under nitrogen deposition: A meta-analysis	38
Impact of grassland afforestation with contrasting tree species on soil phosphorus fractions and alkaline phosphatase gene communities	38
Soil microbiome signatures are associated with pesticide residues in arable landscapes	37
Mycorrhizal association of common European tree species shapes biomass and metabolic activity of bacterial and fungal communities in soil	37
Evidence for involvement of keystone fungal taxa in organic phosphorus mineralization in subtropical soil and the impact of labile carbon	37
Drought-induced and seasonal variation in carbon use efficiency is associated with fungi:bacteria ratio and enzyme production in a grassland ecosystem	37
Abundance of saprotrophic fungi determines decomposition rates of leaf litter from arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal trees in a subtropical forest	37
Temperature and soil management effects on carbon fluxes and priming effect intensity	37
Plant pathological condition is associated with fungal community succession triggered by root exudates in the plant-soil system	37
Predicting the influence of fertilization regimes on potential N fixation through their effect on free-living diazotrophic community structure in double rice cropping systems	37
Root-induced fungal growth triggers macroaggregation in forest subsoils	36
Metagenomic reconstruction of nitrogen and carbon cycling pathways in forest soil: Influence of different hardwood tree species	36
Soil carbon dynamics during drying vs. rewetting: Importance of antecedent moisture conditions	36
Energy flux across multitrophic levels drives ecosystem multifunctionality: Evidence from nematode food webs	36
Decomposing cover crops modify root-associated microbiome composition and disease tolerance of cash crop seedlings	36
Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and fungal denitrifier diversity are associated with N2O production in tropical soils	36
Canonical ammonia oxidizers, rather than comammox Nitrospira, dominated autotrophic nitrification during the mineralization of organic substances in two paddy soils	36
Loss of microbial diversity weakens specific soil functions, but increases soil ecosystem stability	36
Aridity decreases soil protistan network complexity and stability	36
Synthesis of methods used to assess soil protease activity	35
Microbial functional genes driving the positive priming effect in forest soils along an elevation gradient	35
Modeling ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics in soil: The microbial dimension	35
Maize genotype-specific exudation strategies: An adaptive mechanism to increase microbial activity in the rhizosphere	35
Species pool and local ecological assembly processes shape the β-diversity of diazotrophs in grassland soils	35
Niche specialization of comammox Nitrospira clade A in terrestrial ecosystems	35
Disentangling the impact of contrasting agricultural management practices on soil microbial communities – Importance of rare bacterial community members	34
Active phoD-harboring bacteria are enriched by long-term organic fertilization	34
Soil and temperature effects on nitrification and denitrification modified N2O mitigation by 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate	34
You must choose, but choose wisely: Model-based approaches for microbial community analysis	34
Gross nitrogen transformations in tropical pasture soils as affected by Urochloa genotypes differing in biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) capacity	34
The unexplored role of preferential flow in soil carbon dynamics	34
Carbon cycle in the microbial ecosystems of biological soil crusts	34
The chemodiversity of paddy soil dissolved organic matter is shaped and homogenized by bacterial communities that are orchestrated by geographic distance and fertilizations	34
Soil aggregate development and associated microbial metabolic limitations alter grassland carbon storage following livestock removal	34
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	34
A soil microbial model to analyze decoupled microbial growth and respiration during soil drying and rewetting	34
The nitrogen gap in soil health concepts and fertility measurements	34
Microbial carbon use efficiency, biomass residence time and temperature sensitivity across ecosystems and soil depths	34
Soil carbon balance by priming differs with single versus repeated addition of glucose and soil fertility level	34
Co-occurring increased phosphatase activity and labile P depletion in the rhizosphere of Lupinus angustifolius assessed with a novel, combined 2D-imaging approach	34
Soil aggregate modulates microbial ecological adaptations and community assemblies in agricultural soils	34
Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach	34
Effect of rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotype on yield: Evidence from recruiting spatially consistent rhizosphere microbiome	33
Biochar amendment increases bacterial diversity and vegetation cover in trace element-polluted soils: A long-term field experiment	33
Physical mechanisms for soil moisture effects on microbial carbon-use efficiency in a sandy loam soil in the western United States	33
A meta-analysis of phosphatase activity in agricultural settings in response to phosphorus deficiency	33
Long-term regional evidence of the effects of livestock grazing on soil microbial community structure and functions in surface and deep soil layers	33
Differential accumulation patterns of microbial necromass induced by maize root vs. shoot residue addition in agricultural Alfisols	33
Form of nitrogen input dominates N effects on root growth and soil aggregation: A meta-analysis	33
Disentangling the effects of nitrogen availability and soil acidification on microbial taxa and soil carbon dynamics in natural grasslands	33
Soil organic carbon becomes newer under warming at a permafrost site on the Tibetan Plateau	33
Long-term increase in rainfall decreases soil organic phosphorus decomposition in tropical forests	33
Acidic amelioration of soil amendments improves soil health by impacting rhizosphere microbial assemblies	33
Electron shuttle potential of biochar promotes dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in paddy soil	33
Bacterial community structure and putative nitrogen-cycling functional traits along a charosphere gradient under waterlogged conditions	33
Plant litter traits control microbial decomposition and drive soil carbon stabilization	32