Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Article	Citations
Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter	487
The microplastisphere: Biodegradable microplastics addition alters soil microbial community structure and function	345
Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems	326
How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health	233
Effects of microplastics on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a soil spiked with ZnO nanoparticles	185
Network analysis and subsequent culturing reveal keystone taxa involved in microbial litter decomposition dynamics	144
Soil microbial network complexity predicts ecosystem function along elevation gradients on the Tibetan Plateau	139
Changes in soil bacterial and fungal community composition and functional groups during the succession of boreal forests	133
Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition on microbial community composition and element cycling in a grassland soil	129
Negative effects of multiple global change factors on soil microbial diversity	126
Soil aggregate size-dependent relationships between microbial functional diversity and multifunctionality	118
Microbial necromass on the rise: The growing focus on its role in soil organic matter development	114
Organic amendments drive shifts in microbial community structure and keystone taxa which increase C mineralization across aggregate size classes	109
Global patterns and associated drivers of priming effect in response to nutrient addition	108
Tradeoffs among microbial life history strategies influence the fate of microbial residues in subtropical forest soils	103
Long-term excess nitrogen fertilizer increases sensitivity of soil microbial community to seasonal change revealed by ecological network and metagenome analyses	103
Organic fertilization promotes crop productivity through changes in soil aggregation	102
From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils	98
Biochar stability and impact on soil organic carbon mineralization depend on biochar processing, aging and soil clay content	96
Glomalin – Truths, myths, and the future of this elusive soil glycoprotein	96
Priming mechanisms providing plants and microbes access to mineral-associated organic matter	94
Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition	94
How soil biota regulate C cycling and soil C pools in diversified crop rotations	92
Microbial communities in crop phyllosphere and root endosphere are more resistant than soil microbiota to fertilization	92
Adaptive pathways of soil microorganisms to stoichiometric imbalances regulate microbial respiration following afforestation in the Loess Plateau, China	90

Global biogeography of fungal and bacterial biomass carbon in topsoil	89
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	89
An evaluation of carbon indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments	88
Increasing contribution of microbial residues to soil organic carbon in grassland restoration chronosequence	88
Changes in assembly processes of soil microbial communities during secondary succession in two subtropical forests	87
Deep-C storage: Biological, chemical and physical strategies to enhance carbon stocks in agricultural subsoils	86
Fungi determine increased soil organic carbon more than bacteria through their necromass inputs in conservation tillage croplands	85
The ‘soil health’ metaphor: Illuminating or illusory?	85
Globally nitrogen addition alters soil microbial community structure, but has minor effects on soil microbial diversity and richness	84
Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology	83
Strong priming of soil organic matter induced by frequent input of labile carbon	81
The role of plant input physical-chemical properties, and microbial and soil chemical diversity on the formation of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter	81
Nematode-based indices in soil ecology: Application, utility, and future directions	78
The life of soils: Integrating the who and how of multifunctionality	77
Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates	77
Heterotrophic nitrification – An eternal mystery in the nitrogen cycle	77
Impact of nitrogen addition on plant-soil-enzyme C–N–P stoichiometry and microbial nutrient limitation	76
Predicting measures of soil health using the microbiome and supervised machine learning	76
Metagenomics reveals taxon-specific responses of the nitrogen-cycling microbial community to long-term nitrogen fertilization	75
Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands	74
Soil texture affects the coupling of litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation	73
Patterns and determinants of soil microbial residues from tropical to boreal forests	72
A global meta-analysis on freeze-thaw effects on soil carbon and phosphorus cycling	72
Stoichiometric regulation of priming effects and soil carbon balance by microbial life strategies	72
Century long fertilization reduces stochasticity controlling grassland microbial community succession	69
Deterministic selection dominates microbial community assembly in termite mounds	69
NosZ clade II rather than clade I determine in situ N2O emissions with different fertilizer types under simulated climate change and its legacy	69
Where and why do particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) differ among diverse soils?	68
Initial soil formation by biocrusts: Nitrogen demand and clay protection control microbial necromass accrual and recycling	68
Root functional traits are key determinants of the rhizosphere effect on soil organic matter decomposition across 14 temperate hardwood species	68
Microplastics effects on soil biota are dependent on their properties: A meta-analysis	67
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context	66
Rhizosphere microbial communities explain positive effects of diverse crop rotations on maize and soybean performance	65
Root exudates shift how N mineralization and N fixation contribute to the plant-available N supply in low fertility soils	65
Comparing root exudate collection techniques: An improved hybrid method	64
Can moisture affect temperature dependences of microbial growth and respiration?	64
Mycorrhizal fungi and phosphatase involvement in rhizosphere phosphorus transformations improves plant nutrition during subtropical forest succession	64
Visualizing the transfer of organic matter from decaying plant residues to soil mineral surfaces controlled by microorganisms	63
Global effects on soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity depend on nitrogen addition rate	63
Rare fungus, Mortierella capitata, promotes crop growth by stimulating primary metabolisms related genes and reshaping rhizosphere bacterial community	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	63
Plant carbon inputs through shoot, root, and mycorrhizal pathways affect soil organic carbon turnover differently	63
Organic matter chemistry and bacterial community structure regulate decomposition processes in post-fire forest soils	62
Continuous application of conservation tillage affects in situ N2O emissions and nitrogen cycling gene abundances following nitrogen fertilization	62
Drought accentuates the role of mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake	62
Fungal denitrification revisited – Recent advancements and future opportunities	61
Field application of pure polyethylene microplastic has no significant short-term effect on soil biological quality and function	60
Different contribution of species sorting and exogenous species immigration from manure to soil fungal diversity and community assemblage under long-term fertilization	60
Functional compensation dominates the assembly of plant rhizospheric bacterial community	59
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	59
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?	58
Improved global-scale predictions of soil carbon stocks with Millennial Version 2	57
Crop production correlates with soil multitrophic communities at the large spatial scale	57
Priming, stabilization and temperature sensitivity of native SOC is controlled by microbial responses and physicochemical properties of biochar	57
Identification of microbial strategies for labile substrate utilization at phylogenetic classification using a microcosm approach	56
Biochar induces mineralization of soil recalcitrant components by activation of biochar responsive bacteria groups	56
Oxygen availability determines key regulators in soil organic carbon mineralisation in paddy soils	55
Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils	54
Sensitivity of soil carbon dynamics to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in an alpine meadow	54
Rice rhizodeposition promotes the build-up of organic carbon in soil via fungal necromass	54
Plant and microbial pathways driving plant diversity effects on soil carbon accumulation in subtropical forest	54
Distribution of phosphorus cycling genes across land uses and microbial taxonomic groups based on metagenome and genome mining	53
Quantification of the global impact of agricultural practices on soil nematodes: A meta-analysis	52
Different stochastic processes regulate bacterial and fungal community assembly in estuarine wetland soils	52
Nitrogen addition increases microbial necromass in croplands and bacterial necromass in forests: A global meta-analysis	51
Nitrogen addition stimulates priming effect in a subtropical forest soil	51
A critical perspective on interpreting amplicon sequencing data in soil ecological research	51
Rhizosphere microbiome assembly involves seed-borne bacteria in compensatory phosphate solubilization	51
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
Organic phosphorus availability shapes the diversity of phoD-harboring bacteria in agricultural soil	50
Depth effects on bacterial community assembly processes in paddy soils	50
Stable isotopes reveal that fungal residues contribute more to mineral-associated organic matter pools than plant residues	49
Effects of elevated pH and phosphorus fertilizer on soil C, N and P enzyme stoichiometry in an acidic mixed mesophytic deciduous forest	49
Primings of soil organic matter and denitrification mediate the effects of moisture on nitrous oxide production	49
Revisiting the quantitative contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon pool: Stoichiometric control by microbes and soil	49
Labile carbon facilitated phosphorus solubilization as regulated by bacterial and fungal communities in Zea mays	49
Co-symbiosis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and diazotrophs promote biological nitrogen fixation in mangrove ecosystems	48
Application of manure from cattle administered antibiotics has sustained multi-year impacts on soil resistome and microbial community structure	48
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season	48
Fungal extracellular polymeric substance matrices – Highly specialized microenvironments that allow fungi to control soil organic matter decomposition reactions	48
The contribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria to gross nitrification under different substrate availability	47
Decreased rhizodeposition, but increased microbial carbon stabilization with soil depth down to 3.6 m	47
Resistance of microbial community and its functional sensitivity in the rhizosphere hotspots to drought	47
Meta-analysis of the impact of freeze–thaw cycles on soil microbial diversity and C and N dynamics	47
Priming effects induced by degradable microplastics in agricultural soils	47
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry can reflect microbial resource limitation, substrate quality, or both in forest soils	47
Sulfate addition and rising temperature promote arsenic methylation and the formation of methylated thioarsenates in paddy soils	47
Microbial solubilization of silicon and phosphorus from bedrock in relation to abundance of phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria in temperate forest soils	46
Turnover of gram-negative bacterial biomass-derived carbon through the microbial food web of an agricultural soil	46
Interacting effects of land use type, microbes and plant traits on soil aggregate stability	46
Dominant plants affect litter decomposition mainly through modifications of the soil microbial community	46
Mineralization of organic carbon and formation of microbial biomass in soil: Effects of clay content and composition and the mechanisms involved	46
Dynamic changes in bacterial community structure are associated with distinct priming effect patterns	46
Global meta-analysis of terrestrial nitrous oxide emissions and associated functional genes under nitrogen addition	46
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and goethite promote carbon sequestration via hyphal-aggregate mineral interactions	46
Abiotic and biotic regulation on carbon mineralization and stabilization in paddy soils along iron oxide gradients	45
Rhizosphere effects of woody plants on soil biogeochemical processes: A meta-analysis	45
Long-term organic fertilization promotes the resilience of soil multifunctionality driven by bacterial communities	45
Active metabolic pathways of anaerobic methane oxidation in paddy soils	45
Resistant soil carbon is more vulnerable to priming effect than active soil carbon	45
Nitrogen addition alters composition, diversity, and functioning of microbial communities in mangrove soils: An incubation experiment	45
Warming promotes loss of subsoil carbon through accelerated degradation of plant-derived organic matter	44
Distinct factors drive the diversity and composition of protistan consumers and phototrophs in natural soil ecosystems	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
Microbial community succession in soil is mainly driven by carbon and nitrogen contents rather than phosphorus and sulphur contents	44
Protists modulate fungal community assembly in paddy soils across climatic zones at the continental scale	44
Soil macrofauna: Study problems and perspectives	43
Soil enzyme stoichiometry is tightly linked to microbial community composition in successional ecosystems after glacier retreat	43
Nutrient (C, N and P) enrichment induces significant changes in the soil metabolite profile and microbial carbon partitioning	42
Plant-derived lipids play a crucial role in forest soil carbon accumulation	42
Microbial substrate stoichiometry governs nutrient effects on nitrogen cycling in grassland soils	42
Top-down effects of protists are greater than bottom-up effects of fertilisers on the formation of bacterial communities in a paddy field soil	42
Loss of microbial diversity does not decrease γ-HCH degradation but increases methanogenesis in flooded paddy soil	41
Grassland degradation-induced declines in soil fungal complexity reduce fungal community stability and ecosystem multifunctionality	41
Soil bacterial community functions and distribution after mining disturbance	41
Carbon pathways in aggregates and density fractions in Mollisols under water and straw management: Evidence from 13C natural abundance	41
Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity	41
Estimating microbial carbon use efficiency in soil: Isotope-based and enzyme-based methods measure fundamentally different aspects of microbial resource use	41
Microbial carbon use efficiency and priming of soil organic matter mineralization by glucose additions in boreal forest soils with different C:N ratios	41
Metagenomic reconstruction of nitrogen and carbon cycling pathways in forest soil: Influence of different hardwood tree species	40
Maize root exudate composition alters rhizosphere bacterial community to control hotspots of hydrolase activity in response to nitrogen supply	40
Soil microbiome signatures are associated with pesticide residues in arable landscapes	40
Soil aggregate-mediated microbial responses to long-term warming	40
Trade-offs in greenhouse gas emissions across a liming-induced gradient of soil pH: Role of microbial structure and functioning	40
Rates of dark CO2 fixation are driven by microbial biomass in a temperate forest soil	40
Iron-bound carbon increases along a freshwater−oligohaline gradient in a subtropical tidal wetland	39
Carbon nanotubes accelerate acetoclastic methanogenesis: From pure cultures to anaerobic soils	39
The role of land management and elevation in shaping soil microbial communities: Insights from the Central European Alps	39
Plant pathological condition is associated with fungal community succession triggered by root exudates in the plant-soil system	39

Succession of the composition and co-occurrence networks of rhizosphere microbiota is linked to Cd/Zn hyperaccumulation	39
Decomposing cover crops modify root-associated microbiome composition and disease tolerance of cash crop seedlings	39
Root and mycorrhizal strategies for nutrient acquisition in forests under nitrogen deposition: A meta-analysis	39
A meta-analysis of phosphatase activity in agricultural settings in response to phosphorus deficiency	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
Drought-induced and seasonal variation in carbon use efficiency is associated with fungi:bacteria ratio and enzyme production in a grassland ecosystem	38
Temperature and soil management effects on carbon fluxes and priming effect intensity	38
Plants with an ammonium preference affect soil N transformations to optimize their N acquisition	38
Invasive plant-derived dissolved organic matter alters microbial communities and carbon cycling in soils	38
Impact of grassland afforestation with contrasting tree species on soil phosphorus fractions and alkaline phosphatase gene communities	38
Active phoD-harboring bacteria are enriched by long-term organic fertilization	37
Microbial functional genes driving the positive priming effect in forest soils along an elevation gradient	37
Loss of microbial diversity weakens specific soil functions, but increases soil ecosystem stability	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
Aridity decreases soil protistan network complexity and stability	37
Canonical ammonia oxidizers, rather than comammox Nitrospira, dominated autotrophic nitrification during the mineralization of organic substances in two paddy soils	37
Root-induced fungal growth triggers macroaggregation in forest subsoils	36
Microbial carbon use efficiency, biomass residence time and temperature sensitivity across ecosystems and soil depths	36
Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and fungal denitrifier diversity are associated with N2O production in tropical soils	36
Maize genotype-specific exudation strategies: An adaptive mechanism to increase microbial activity in the rhizosphere	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
Species pool and local ecological assembly processes shape the β-diversity of diazotrophs in grassland soils	35
Synthesis of methods used to assess soil protease activity	35
Modeling ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics in soil: The microbial dimension	35
Co-occurring increased phosphatase activity and labile P depletion in the rhizosphere of Lupinus angustifolius assessed with a novel, combined 2D-imaging approach	35
The unexplored role of preferential flow in soil carbon dynamics	35
The chemodiversity of paddy soil dissolved organic matter is shaped and homogenized by bacterial communities that are orchestrated by geographic distance and fertilizations	35
Disentangling the impact of contrasting agricultural management practices on soil microbial communities – Importance of rare bacterial community members	35
Soil and temperature effects on nitrification and denitrification modified N2O mitigation by 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate	35
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient	35
Long-term regional evidence of the effects of livestock grazing on soil microbial community structure and functions in surface and deep soil layers	35
Carbon cycle in the microbial ecosystems of biological soil crusts	35
Soil aggregate development and associated microbial metabolic limitations alter grassland carbon storage following livestock removal	35
Niche specialization of comammox Nitrospira clade A in terrestrial ecosystems	35
Disentangling the effects of nitrogen availability and soil acidification on microbial taxa and soil carbon dynamics in natural grasslands	35
Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach	35
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
Soil aggregate modulates microbial ecological adaptations and community assemblies in agricultural soils	34
The nitrogen gap in soil health concepts and fertility measurements	34
Electron shuttle potential of biochar promotes dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in paddy soil	34
Physical mechanisms for soil moisture effects on microbial carbon-use efficiency in a sandy loam soil in the western United States	34
Effect of rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotype on yield: Evidence from recruiting spatially consistent rhizosphere microbiome	34
Biochar amendment increases bacterial diversity and vegetation cover in trace element-polluted soils: A long-term field experiment	33
Bacterial community structure and putative nitrogen-cycling functional traits along a charosphere gradient under waterlogged conditions	33
Long-term increase in rainfall decreases soil organic phosphorus decomposition in tropical forests	33
Differential accumulation patterns of microbial necromass induced by maize root vs. shoot residue addition in agricultural Alfisols	33
Microbial community assembly and its influencing factors of secondary forests in Qinling Mountains	33
Contrasting effects of straw and biochar on microscale heterogeneity of soil O2 and pH: Implication for N2O emissions	33
Impact of common sample pre-treatments on key soil microbial properties	33
Plant litter traits control microbial decomposition and drive soil carbon stabilization	33
When microclimates meet soil microbes: Temperature controls soil microbial diversity along an elevational gradient in subtropical forests	33
Form of nitrogen input dominates N effects on root growth and soil aggregation: A meta-analysis	33
Strong shifts in microbial community structure are associated with increased litter input rather than temperature in High Arctic soils	33
Soil organic carbon becomes newer under warming at a permafrost site on the Tibetan Plateau	33
Acidic amelioration of soil amendments improves soil health by impacting rhizosphere microbial assemblies	33
Use of metabolomics to quantify changes in soil microbial function in response to fertiliser nitrogen supply and extreme drought	32
Chlorate as a comammox Nitrospira specific inhibitor reveals nitrification and N2O production activity in coastal wetland	31
Linking bacterial life strategies with soil organic matter accrual by karst vegetation restoration	31
Nitrogen availability and mineral particles contributed fungal necromass to the newly formed stable carbon pool in the alpine areas of Southwest China	31
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps	31
Soil fungal diversity and functionality are driven by plant species used in phytoremediation	31
Abundant and rare bacteria possess different diversity and function in crop monoculture and rotation systems across regional farmland	31
Long-term fertilizer postponing promotes soil organic carbon sequestration in paddy soils by accelerating lignin degradation and increasing microbial necromass	31
Herb litter mediates tree litter decomposition and soil fauna composition	31
Co-localised phosphorus mobilization processes in the rhizosphere of field-grown maize jointly contribute to plant nutrition	31
Exogenous substrate quality determines the dominant keystone taxa linked to carbon mineralization: Evidence from a 30-year experiment	31
Substrate spatial heterogeneity reduces soil microbial activity	31
Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees cause a higher carbon to nitrogen ratio of soil organic matter decomposition via rhizosphere priming than ectomycorrhizal trees	31
Distinct accumulation of bacterial and fungal residues along a salinity gradient in coastal salt-affected soils	30
Litter quality drives nitrogen release, and agricultural management (organic vs. conventional) drives carbon loss during litter decomposition in agro-ecosystems	30
Shrub encroachment affects tundra ecosystem properties through their living canopy rather than increased litter inputs	30
The mechanisms underpinning microbial resilience to drying and rewetting – A model analysis	30
Use and abuse of potential rates in soil microbiology	30
Long-term manure applications to increase carbon sequestration and macroaggregate-stabilized carbon	29
Increasing environmental filtering of diazotrophic communities with a decade of latitudinal soil transplantation	29
Belowground allocation and dynamics of recently fixed plant carbon in a California annual grassland	29
Comammox Nitrospira play a minor role in N2O emissions from an alkaline arable soil	29
Increased soil microbial AOB amoA and narG abundances sustain long-term positive responses of nitrification and denitrification to N deposition	29
A critical review of the use of lipid signature molecules for the quantification of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi	29
Changes in soil bacterial communities and nitrogen mineralization with understory vegetation in boreal larch forests	29
Bacteria responsible for nitrate-dependent antimonite oxidation in antimony-contaminated paddy soil revealed by the combination of DNA-SIP and metagenomics	29
The effects of mowing and multi-level N fertilization on soil bacterial and fungal communities in a semiarid grassland are year-dependent	28
A coupled function of biochar as geobattery and geoconductor leads to stimulation of microbial Fe(III) reduction and methanogenesis in a paddy soil enrichment culture	28
Soil N2O emission potential falls along a denitrification phenotype gradient linked to differences in microbiome, rainfall and carbon availability	28
Linking soil engineers, structural stability, and organic matter allocation to unravel soil carbon responses to land-use change	28
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling	28
How does organic amendment affect soil microbial nitrate immobilization rate?	28
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization	28
Straw return and low N addition modify the partitioning of dissimilatory nitrate reduction by increasing conversion to ammonium in paddy fields	28
Root traits mediate functional guilds of soil nematodes in an ex-arable field	28
Microbial interactions for nutrient acquisition in soil: Miners, scavengers, and carriers	28
Temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration in soils with lower substrate availability is enhanced more by labile carbon input	28
The mechanism of the dose effect of straw on soil respiration: Evidence from enzymatic stoichiometry and functional genes	28