OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 45. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The macromolecular organic composition of plant and microbial residues as inputs to soil organic matter	1279
The implications of exoenzyme activity on microbial carbon and nitrogen limitation in soil: a theoretical model	1057
Measuring soil microbial biomass	404
Rhizosphere size and shape: Temporal dynamics and spatial stationarity	234
Soil amino acid turnover dominates the nitrogen flux in permafrost-dominated taiga forest soils	221
Estimation of conversion factors for fungal biomass determination in compost using ergosterol and PLFA 18:2ω6,9	200
Heavy metal accumulation by two earthworm species and its relationship to total and DTPA-extractable metals in soils	193
Long-term manure application increases soil organic matter and aggregation, and alters microbial community structure and keystone taxa	187
The ratio of Gram-positive to Gram-negative bacterial PLFA markers as an indicator of carbon availability in organic soils	167
Microbial activity and nitrogen mineralization in forest mineral soils following heating: evaluation of post-fire effects	160
Location and chemical composition of stabilized organic carbon in topsoil and subsoil horizons of two acid forest soils	153
PLFA profiles of microbial communities in decomposing conifer litters subject to moisture stress	145
Spatial and temporal controls of soil respiration rate in a high-elevation, subalpine forest	142
Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency in soil: Links to fungal-bacterial dominance, SOC-quality and stoichiometry	127
Rare taxa of alkaline phosphomonoesterase-harboring microorganisms mediate soil phosphorus mineralization	126
Cover cropping and no-till increase diversity and symbiotroph:saprotroph ratios of soil fungal communities	122
Clarifying the interpretation of carbon use efficiency in soil through methods comparison	119
Soil multifunctionality is affected by the soil environment and by microbial community composition and diversity	118
Soil conditions and land use intensification effects on soil microbial communities across a range of European field sites	115
Bulk soil C to N ratio as a simple measure of net N mineralization from stabilized soil organic matter in sandy arable soils	109
Wood biochar increases nitrogen retention in field settings mainly through abiotic processes	109
Influence of the sunflower rhizosphere on the biodegradation of PAHs in soil	109
A pulse-labeling experiment to determine the contribution of recent plant photosynthates to net methane emission in arctic wet sedge tundra	105
Review and synthesis of the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on soil processes: No changes in pools, but increased fluxes and accelerated cycles	105
Microbial activity and functional composition among northern peatland ecosystems	104
Functional guild classification predicts the enzymatic role of fungi in litter and soil biogeochemistry	101
Ecology of the forest microbiome: Highlights of temperate and boreal ecosystems	97
Decomposition of beech leaves (Fagus sylvatica) and spruce needles (Picea abies) in pure and mixed stands of beech and spruce	94
Comammox Nitrospira play an active role in nitrification of agricultural soils amended with nitrogen fertilizers	94
Soil pH is a major driver of soil diazotrophic community assembly in Qinghai-Tibet alpine meadows	94
Comammox Nitrospira clade B contributes to nitrification in soil	91
Enhanced dissipation of chrysene in planted soil: the impact of a rhizobial inoculum	90
Growth explains microbial carbon use efficiency across soils differing in land use and geology	90
Soil bacterial and fungal response to wildfires in the Canadian boreal forest across a burn severity gradient	90
Cyanobacterial inoculation of heated soils: effect on microorganisms of C and N cycles and on chemical composition in soil surface	84
Effects of past and current drought on the composition and diversity of soil microbial communities	83
Tree species identity surpasses richness in affecting soil microbial richness and community composition in subtropical forests	81
Effects of freeze–thaw stress during soil storage on microbial communities and methidathion degradation	79
Can enzymatic stoichiometry be used to determine growth-limiting nutrients for microorganisms? - A critical assessment in two subtropical soils	79
Impact of long-term agricultural management practices on soil prokaryotic communities	78
Soil microbial biomass and nitrogen transformations among five tree species of the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA	76
Impact of harvest residue management on soil nitrogen dynamics in Eucalyptus globulus plantations in south western Australia	76
pH and exchangeable aluminum are major regulators of microbial energy flow and carbon use efficiency in soil microbial communities	76
Reforestation accelerates soil organic carbon accumulation: Evidence from microbial biomarkers	71
Biochemical composition and mineralization kinetics of organic inputs in a sandy soil	69
Plant-plant interactions and N fertilization shape soil bacterial and fungal communities	69
Fungal richness contributes to multifunctionality in boreal forest soil	69
Carbon input and allocation by rice into paddy soils: A review	69
Micro-scale CO2 and CH4 dynamics in a peat soil during a water fluctuation and sulfate pulse	68
Nitrate removal from drained and reflooded fen soils affected by soil N transformation processes and plant uptake	67
Diversity of the active phenanthrene degraders in PAH-polluted soil is shaped by ryegrass rhizosphere and root exudates	66
Spatio-temporal microbial community dynamics within soil aggregates	65
Current opinion and perspectives on the methods for tracking and monitoring plant growth‒promoting bacteria	65
Testing the dependence of microbial growth and carbon use efficiency on nitrogen availability, pH, and organic matter quality	64
Microbial C:N:P stoichiometry and turnover depend on nutrients availability in soil: A 14C, 15N and 33P triple labelling study	64
Use of 13C-labelled plant materials and ergosterol, PLFA and NLFA analyses to investigate organic matter decomposition in Antarctic soil	63
Response of lentil under controlled conditions to co-inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobia varying in efficacy	63
Is decomposition of woodland leaf litter influenced by its species richness?	62
Understanding how long-term organic amendments increase soil phosphatase activities: Insight into phoD- and phoC-harboring functional microbial populations	62
Secondary successional forests undergo tightly-coupled changes in soil microbial community structure and soil organic matter	62
Pasture and forest soil microbial communities show distinct patterns in their catabolic respiration responses at a landscape scale	61
Microbial mechanisms in the reduction of CH4 emission from double rice cropping system amended by biochar: A four-year study	61
A comparison of regression methods for estimating soil–atmosphere diffusion gas fluxes by a closed-chamber technique	60
Carbon and phosphorus addition effects on microbial carbon use efficiency, soil organic matter priming, gross nitrogen mineralization and nitrous oxide emission from soil	60
Environmental effects on soil microbial nitrogen use efficiency are controlled by allocation of organic nitrogen to microbial growth and regulate gross N mineralization	60
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry and nutrient dynamics along a revegetation chronosequence in the soils of abandoned land and Robinia pseudoacacia plantation on the Loess Plateau, China	60
Universality of priming effect: An analysis using thirty five soils with contrasted properties sampled from five continents	60
Influence of enhanced malate dehydrogenase expression by alfalfa on diversity of rhizobacteria and soil nutrient availability	59
Macroinvertebrates in North American tallgrass prairie soils: effects of fire, mowing, and fertilization on density and biomass	59
Changes in the structure and protein binding ability of condensed tannins during decomposition of fresh needles and leaves	58
Labile, recalcitrant, microbial carbon and nitrogen and the microbial community composition at two Abies faxoniana forest elevations under elevated temperatures	58
Warming increases microbial residue contribution to soil organic carbon in an alpine meadow	58
Browsing by red deer negatively impacts on soil nitrogen availability in regenerating native forest	57
Changes in soil chemical and microbial properties after a wildfire in a tropical rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia	57
Soil microbial communities with greater investment in resource acquisition have lower growth yield	57
Linkages of stoichiometric imbalances to soil microbial respiration with increasing nitrogen addition: Evidence from a long-term grassland experiment	57
A methodological framework to embrace soil biodiversity	57
Carbon and nitrogen inputs differentially affect priming of soil organic matter in tropical lowland and montane soils	56
Manure over crop residues increases soil organic matter but decreases microbial necromass relative contribution in upland Ultisols: Results of a 27-year field experiment	56
Quantifying in situ and modeling net nitrogen mineralization from soil organic matter in arable cropping systems	55
Stoichiometric controls of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling after long-term nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a mesic grassland in South Africa	55
Soil organic matter degradation in an agricultural chronosequence under different tillage regimes evaluated by organic matter pools, enzymatic activities and CPMAS ¹³C NMR	54
Diversity of free-living and lichenized fungal communities in biological soil crusts of the Sultanate of Oman and their role in improving soil properties	53
A global meta-analysis of soil respiration and its components in response to phosphorus addition	53
High turnover rate of free phospholipids in soil confirms the classic hypothesis of PLFA methodology	53
Changes in litter quality induced by N deposition alter soil microbial communities	53
Losses in microbial functional diversity reduce the rate of key soil processes	52
Interactive priming of soil N transformations from combining biochar and urea inputs: A 15N isotope tracer study	51
Contrasting latitudinal diversity and co-occurrence patterns of soil fungi and plants in forest ecosystems	51
Suppression of banana Panama disease induced by soil microbiome reconstruction through an integrated agricultural strategy	51
Interactive effects of tree species and soil moisture on methane consumption	50
Manipulating N mineralization from high N crop residues using on- and off-farm organic materials	50
Physical, biochemical, and microbial controls on amino sugar accumulation in soils under long-term cover cropping and no-tillage farming	50
Extracellular DNA extraction is a fast, cheap and reliable alternative for multi-taxa surveys based on soil DNA	50
Soil microbial, nematode, and enzymatic responses to elevated CO2, N fertilization, warming, and reduced precipitation	50
Soil organic matter priming and carbon balance after straw addition is regulated by long-term fertilization	50
The efficacy of 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate on N2O emissions is linked to niche differentiation of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria across four arable soils	50
Assessing fungal contributions to cellulose degradation in soil by using high-throughput stable isotope probing	49
Vegetation biomass and soil moisture coregulate bacterial community succession under altered precipitation regimes in a desert steppe in northwestern China	48
Microbial mechanisms of the contrast residue decomposition and priming effect in soils with different organic and chemical fertilization histories	48
Labile carbon matters more than temperature for enzyme activity in paddy soil	48
Sheep urine affects soil solution nutrient composition and roots: differences between field and sward box soils and the effects of synthetic and natural sheep urine	47
Plant regeneration functional groups modulate the response to fire of soil enzyme activities in a Mediterranean shrubland	47
Optimizing nutrient availability and potential carbon sequestration in an agroecosystem	46
Using a modified DNDC model to estimate N2O fluxes from semi-arid grassland in China	46
Spatial pattern of enzyme activities depends on root exudate composition	46
Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium dominates nitrate reduction in long-term low nitrogen fertilized rice paddies	46
Forest-to-agriculture conversion in Amazon drives soil microbial communities and N-cycle	46
Isotopic evidence for episodic nitrogen fixation in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.)	46
A comparison of competitiveness and persistence amongst five strains of Rhizobium tripolii	45
Nitrogen fixation estimated by the 15N natural abundance method in Acacia mangium Willd. inoculated with Bradyrhizobium sp. and grown in silvicultural conditions	45
The pH optimum of soil exoenzymes adapt to long term changes in soil pH	45
Biochar's role as an electron shuttle for mediating soil N2O emissions	45