Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Papers
(The TQCC of Soil Biology & Biochemistry is 26. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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A microbial-explicit model with comprehensive nitrogen processes to quantify gaseous nitrogen production from agricultural soils579
The soil microbial community and plant biomass differentially contribute to the retention and recycling of urinary-N in grasslands260
Biogeography of soil protistan consumer and parasite is contrasting and linked to microbial nutrient mineralization in forest soils at a wide-scale202
Scaling up taxon-specific microbial traits to predict community-level microbial activity in agricultural systems195
Drying-rewetting of permanent pasture and agricultural soils induces a shift towards microbial use of more C-rich organic matter195
Trophic interrelationships drive the biogeography of protistan community in agricultural ecosystems178
Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure177
Wildland fire ash enhances short-term CO2 flux from soil in a Southern African savannah163
Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient161
Protists modulate fungal community assembly in paddy soils across climatic zones at the continental scale160
Carbon acquisition ecological strategies to connect soil microbial biodiversity and carbon cycling154
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 moistur154
Limited effects of century-old biochar on taxonomic and functional diversities of collembolan communities across land-uses151
Revisiting process-based simulations of soil nitrite dynamics: Tighter cycling between nitrite and nitrate than considered previously145
Nitrate-induced hydroxyl radical releases deep soil organic carbon by opening the ‘enzyme latch’ under micro-aerobic conditions141
Legacy effects of rhizodeposits on soil microbiomes: A perspective138
Impact of common sample pre-treatments on key soil microbial properties137
The influence of soil development on the depth distribution and structure of soil microbial communities135
Altered rainfall greatly affects enzyme activity but has limited effect on microbial biomass in Australian dryland soils132
Abundant and rare fungal taxa exhibit different patterns of phylogenetic niche conservatism and community assembly across a geographical and environmental gradient131
Strong rhizosphere priming effects on N dynamics in soils with higher soil N supply capacity: The ‘Matthew effect’ in plant-soil systems129
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Stability of iron-carbon complexes determines carbon sequestration efficiency in iron-rich soils123
Tackling global biogeography and drivers of soil microbial dehalogenation traits and taxa: Insights from metagenomic profiling based on a curated dehalogenase database119
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation and plant response strongly shape bacterial and eukaryotic soil community trajectories114
Shrub effects on the decomposition microenvironment and changes in litter quality have opposing effects on litter decomposition112
Earthworm ecotype diversity mitigates resource limitations of microbial community in arable soils105
Distinct mechanisms drive plant-nitrifier interactions in topsoil and subsoil104
Root exudation processes induce the utilization of microbial-derived components by rhizoplane microbiota under conservation agriculture103
Contrasting effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration in a typical steppe101
Response of soil microbial diversity and functionality to snow removal in a cool-temperate forest100
Phosphorus addition ameliorates soil micro-food web simplification due to nitrogen enrichment but does not restore nematode community composition99
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps99
Multi-amplicon nitrogen cycling gene standard: An innovative approach for quantifying N-transforming soil microbes in terrestrial ecosystems98
Soil metabolomics - current challenges and future perspectives98
Nitrogen addition altered the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi network through reducing redundant interactions in an alpine meadow97
Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype97
Biochar addition regulates soil and earthworm gut microbiome and multifunctionality93
Cry for help from rhizosphere microbiomes and self-rescue strategies cooperatively alleviate drought stress in spring wheat92
Soil oxidoreductase zymography: Visualizing spatial distributions of peroxidase and phenol oxidase activities at the root-soil interface90
Time-dependent regulation of soil aggregates on fertilizer N retention and the influence of straw mulching90
VNIR and MIR spectroscopy of PLFA-derived soil microbial properties and associated soil physicochemical characteristics in an experimental plant diversity gradient89
Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil89
Expedited loss of soil biodiversity in blue carbon ecosystems caused by rising sea levels86
Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux85
Tree decline and mortality following pathogen invasion alters the diversity, composition and network structure of the soil microbiome85
From rhizosphere to detritusphere – Soil structure formation driven by plant roots and the interactions with soil biota85
Different responses of nitrous oxide emissions to liming and manure amendment of an acidic ultisol are controlled by autotrophic and heterotrophic nitrification84
Long-term warming-induced trophic downgrading in the soil microbial food web83
Drought-induced changes in rare microbial community promoted contribution of microbial necromass C to SOC in a subtropical forest82
Nitrogen induced soil carbon gains are resistant to loss after the cessation of excess nitrogen inputs82
Straw return and low N addition modify the partitioning of dissimilatory nitrate reduction by increasing conversion to ammonium in paddy fields82
Metabolic pathways of CO2 fixing microorganisms determined C-fixation rates in grassland soils along the precipitation gradient82
Conversion of SIC to SOC enhances soil carbon sequestration and soil structural stability in alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau81
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon80
Corrigendum to “Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 195 (2024), 109456]79
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions of extracellular fungal phosphatases interact differently with clay mineral surfaces79
Enhanced mite grazing leads to pattern shifts in soil N2O emissions after organic fertilizer application78
Selective utilization of organic carbon molecules promotes arsenic methylation by increasing methyltransferase activity in arsM-harboring microbes of paddy soils77
Spatial and temporal detection of root exudates with a paper-based microfluidic device77
Nitrogen availability and mineral particles contributed fungal necromass to the newly formed stable carbon pool in the alpine areas of Southwest China77
Shedding light on the functional role of the Ignavibacteria in Italian rice field soil: A meta-genomic/transcriptomic analysis76
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Contrasting responses of microbial diversity and community structure in decaying root bark and xylem to N addition in an alpine shrubland74
Historical forest disturbance reduces soil microbial efficiency across multiple carbon sources74
The effects of climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input on soil N2O emissions from mangroves74
The interplay between Azospirillum brasilense and the native bacterial communities in the soil and rhizosphere of maize (Zea mays L.)74
Rice root Fe plaque increases paddy soil CH4 emissions via the promotion of electron transfer for syntrophic methanogenesis73
No thermal adaptation in soil extracellular enzymes across a temperate grassland region73
Testing the environmental controls of microbial nitrogen-mining induced by semi-continuous labile carbon additions in the subarctic72
Impact of graphite nano amendments on soil enzyme activities, functional genes and microbiome composition in a soil-plant system71
Manure application effects on subsoils: Abundant taxa initiate the diversity reduction of rare bacteria and community functional alterations71
Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils71
Rapid transfer of C and N excreted by decomposer soil animals to plants and above-ground herbivores70
Thermodynamic control on the decomposition of organic matter across different electron acceptors70
Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity70
Depth effects on bacterial community assembly processes in paddy soils69
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have a greater role than root hairs of maize for priming the rhizosphere microbial community and enhancing rhizosphere organic P mineralization69
Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates69
Soil textural control on moisture distribution at the microscale and its effect on added particulate organic matter mineralization69
Resolving dynamic mineral-organic interactions in the rhizosphere by combining in-situ microsensors with plant-soil reactive transport modeling69
Sporadic P limitation constrains microbial growth and facilitates SOM accumulation in the stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbe–plant–soil model69
Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands69
Addition of base cations increases microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass in acidic soils68
Energy and matter dynamics in an estuarine soil are more sensitive to warming than salinization67
Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems67
Coupling energy balance and carbon flux during cellulose degradation in arable soils66
Carbon flow from roots to rhizobacterial networks: Grafting effects66
A global meta-analysis reveals the positive effect of invasive alien plants on soil heterotrophic respiration65
Tillage and pesticide seed treatments have distinct effects on soil microbial diversity and function64
Soil carbon mineralization and microbial community dynamics in response to pyrogenic organic matter addition64
Organic cropping systems alter metabolic potential and carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling capacity of soil microbial communities64
Soil legacies of a primary invader strongly drive secondary invasions for species that are phylogenetically distant63
Soil clay minerals: An overlooked mediator of gross N transformations in Regosolic soils of subtropical montane landscapes62
Effects of warming on bacterial growth rates in a peat soil under ambient and elevated CO261
Reductive dissolution of iron phosphate modifies rice root morphology in phosphorus-deficient paddy soils60
Alternate wetting-drying had no preferences for rice P uptake but increased microbial P allocation to phospholipids: Evidence from dual 32P and 33P labeling60
Kinetics of arsenic and antimony reduction and oxidation in peatlands treating mining-affected waters: Effects of microbes, temperature, and carbon substrate59
Root exudation and rhizosphere microbial assembly are influenced by novel plant trait diversity in carrot genotypes59
Spatial access and resource limitations control carbon mineralization in soils59
Whole soil warming promotes surface soil carbon loss but deep soil carbon gain, depending on land management practices in temperate climate58
Field application of pure polyethylene microplastic has no significant short-term effect on soil biological quality and function58
Role of different size classes of organisms in cropped soils: What do litterbag experiments tell us? A meta-analysis58
Disentangling carbon stabilization in a Calcisol subsoil amended with iron oxyhydroxides: A dual-13C isotope approach57
Identification of the rhizosphere microbes that actively consume plant-derived carbon57
Eukaryotes in soil aggregates across conservation managements: Major roles of protists, fungi and taxa linkages in soil structuring and C stock57
Abundant and rare bacteria possess different diversity and function in crop monoculture and rotation systems across regional farmland56
Mixing with coniferous tree species alleviates rhizosphere soil phosphorus limitation of broad-leaved trees in subtropical plantations56
Plant root exudates and rhizosphere bacterial communities shift with neighbor context55
Drought shifts soil nematodes to smaller size across biological scales55
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Altered microbial CAZyme families indicated dead biomass decomposition following afforestation55
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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-glucosida54
Primary carbon sources and self-induced metabolic landscapes shape community structure in soil bacterial hotspots54
Rewetting alongside biochar and sulphate addition mitigates greenhouse gas emissions and retain carbon in degraded upland peatlands54
Corrigendum to “Plant phenology modulates and undersown cover crops mitigate N2O emissions” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 198 (2024) 109548]54
Forest restoration increases energy flow through the fungal channel and decreases energy flow through the herbivorous channel in soil micro-food webs54
Alterations in substrate stoichiometry control the responses of soil diazotrophs to nutrient enrichment54
Simplified estimates of soil nematode body mass using maximum diameter: Insights from large-scale grasslands across China53
Regulation of soil nitrogen cycling by shrubs in grasslands52
Factors predictive of the biogeographic distribution of comammox Nitrospira in terrestrial ecosystems52
Tillage homogenizes soil bacterial communities in microaggregate fractions by facilitating dispersal52
Spatiotemporal variation in soil methane uptake in a cool-temperate immature deciduous forest51
Divergent responses of soil glomalin and microbial necromass to precipitation reduction: New perspectives from soil aggregates and multi-trophic networks51
Soil nematode community profiling using reference-free mito-metagenomics51
Evaluation of the relation between soil biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and glomalin-related soil protein in conservation agriculture50
Nitrifier controls on soil NO and N2O emissions in three chaparral ecosystems under contrasting atmospheric N inputs50
Unravelling the facilitation-competition continuum among ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi49
Root exudate stoichiometry is a key driver of soil N cycling: implications for forest responses to global change49
Dynamic changes in bacterial community structure are associated with distinct priming effect patterns49
Disproportional oxidation rates of ammonia and nitrite deciphers the heterogeneity of fertilizer-induced N2O emissions in agricultural soils49
Molecular weight of dissolved organic matter determines its interactions with microbes and its assembly processes in soils49
Phosphorus limitation regulates the responses of microbial carbon metabolism to long-term combined additions of nitrogen and phosphorus in a cropland49
Priming effect varies with root order: A case of Cunninghamia lanceolata49
Planar optodes reveal spatio-temporal heterogeneity of oxic and pH microenvironments driven by dung beetle activity in soil49
Transferring concepts from plant to microbial ecology: A framework proposal to identify relevant bacterial functional traits48
Priming effect on soil carbon decomposition by root exudate surrogates: A meta-analysis48
Dynamic stability of mineral-associated organic matter: enhanced stability and turnover through organic fertilization in a temperate agricultural topsoil48
Rice rhizodeposition promotes the build-up of organic carbon in soil via fungal necromass48
Dominant plants affect litter decomposition mainly through modifications of the soil microbial community48
Soil P availability and mycorrhizal type determine root exudation in sub-tropical forests47
How does organic amendment affect soil microbial nitrate immobilization rate?47
Litter diversity accelerates labile carbon but slows recalcitrant carbon decomposition47
Modeling ecosystem-scale carbon dynamics in soil: The microbial dimension47
Fiddler crab bioturbation stimulates methane emissions in mangroves: Insights into microbial mechanisms47
Corrigendum to “A meta-analysis of global cropland soil carbon change from cover cropping” [Soil Biol. Biochem. 143 (2020) 107735]46
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Microbial community assembly and its influencing factors of secondary forests in Qinling Mountains46
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Structure and function of bacterial metaproteomes across biomes44
The soil microbial methylome: A tool to explore the role of epigenetic memory in driving soil abiotic legacy effects44
Earthworm influence on soil aggregate distribution and protected carbon at managed forest sites in Vermont, USA44
Plant organ rather than cover crop species determines residue incorporation into SOC pools43
Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils43
Distinct seasonal and annual variability of prokaryotes, fungi and protists in cropland soil under different tillage systems and soil texture43
Deciphering factors controlling decay and nitrogen accumulation in coarse wood debris of five tree species using 15N labeled wood disks43
Differential accumulation patterns of microbial necromass induced by maize root vs. shoot residue addition in agricultural Alfisols43
The only constant is change: Endogenous circadian rhythms of soil microbial activities43
Microplastics exert minor influence on bacterial community succession during the aging of earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) casts43
Preceding crop legacy modulates the early growth of winter wheat by influencing root growth dynamics, rhizosphere processes, and microbial interactions42
Co-localised phosphorus mobilization processes in the rhizosphere of field-grown maize jointly contribute to plant nutrition42
Nitrogen addition increases the glucose-induced priming effect of the particulate but not the mineral-associated organic carbon fraction42
Visualizing the transfer of organic matter from decaying plant residues to soil mineral surfaces controlled by microorganisms42
N-induced soil acidification triggers metal stimulation of soil methane oxidation in a temperate steppe ecosystem42
Elevated CO2 and nitrogen interactively affect the rhizosphere priming effect of Cunninghamia lanceolata42
Aeolian dust deposition as a driver of cyanobacterial community structure in biological soil crusts42
Linking Rock-Eval parameters to soil heterotrophic respiration and microbial residues in a black soil42
When microclimates meet soil microbes: Temperature controls soil microbial diversity along an elevational gradient in subtropical forests42
Degradation dynamics and microbial processes in yak dung on the Tibetan Plateau42
Plant mixture effects on carbon-degrading enzymes promote soil organic carbon accumulation42
Nematode community diversity and function across an alpine landscape undergoing plant colonization of previously unvegetated soils41
High stochasticity in rare bacterial community assembly in rice-wheat rotation soils at a regional scale41
Interplanting leguminous shrubs boosts the trophic interactions of soil micro-food web in a karst grassland40
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Carbon cycle in the microbial ecosystems of biological soil crusts40
Restructuring of soil food webs reduces carbon storage potential in boreal peatlands40
Acidic amelioration of soil amendments improves soil health by impacting rhizosphere microbial assemblies40
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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 rhizosphere39
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Seed treatment with plant-defense elicitors decreases the abundance of ammonia oxidizers associated with winter wheat roots39
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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 stress39
Obituary : Clive Arthur Tudor Edwards - 16 June 1925–20 July 202139
Distinct N-cycling microbial communities contribute to microtopographic variation in soil N2O emissions from denitrification38
Specific utilization of biopolymers of plant and fungal origin reveals the existence of substrate-specific guilds for bacteria in temperate forest soils38
The influence of forest-to-cropland conversion on temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration across tropical to temperate zones38
Wood decomposition in poorly-drained forested wetland soils: How important are termites?38
Seasonal changes in soil biofilm microbial communities38
Phosphorus fertiliser source determines the allocation of root-derived organic carbon to soil organic matter fractions38
The role of the soil microbiome in the colonisation of glacier forefields by Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) under current and future climate change scenarios38
Tracing sources and turnover of soil organic matter in a long-term irrigated dry forest using a novel hydrogen isotope approach38
Global climate changes decoupled soil nitrogen mineralization and immobilization38
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 warming38
Deepened snow in combination with summer warming increases growing season nitrous oxide emissions in dry tundra, but not in wet tundra37
Land use intensification homogenizes soil protist communities and alters their diversity across Europe37
Iron oxidation coupled with nitrate reduction affects the acetate-assimilating microbial community structure elucidated by stable isotope probing in flooded paddy soil37
Long-term N inputs shape microbial communities more strongly than current-year inputs in soils under 10-year continuous corn cropping37
Polar soils exhibit distinct patterns in microbial diversity and dominant phylotypes37
Decoupled responses of leaf and root decomposition to nutrient deposition in a subtropical plantation37
The effects of tree-mycorrhizal type on soil organic matter properties from neighborhood to watershed scales37
Adult body mass influences multi-element stoichiometry in ground beetles36
Nitrogen deposition stimulates decomposition via changes in the structure and function of litter food webs36
Nitrogen-15 natural abundance is robust to quantify nitrogen transfer from clover to grass in temporary grassland36
Aridity thresholds of microbiome-soil function relationship along a climatic aridity gradient in alpine ecosystem36
Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season36
Lithologic control of microbial-derived carbon in forest soils36
Biocrusts drive soil respiration across seasons and depths in a cold-winter desert36
Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil36
Soil microbial communities are driven by the declining availability of cations and phosphorus during ecosystem retrogression35
Respiration and carbon use efficiency characteristics of soluble protein-derived carbon by soil microorganisms: A case study at afforested sites35
Increase in iron-bound organic carbon content under simulated sea-level rise: A “marsh organ” field experiment35
Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models35
Opposite priming responses to labile carbon versus oxygen pulses in anoxic peat35
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-resolut35
Shifts in C-degradation genes and microbial metabolic activity with vegetation types affected the surface soil organic carbon pool35
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Year-round activity of microbial communities in cold-climate peatlands treating mining-affected waters35
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities of pristine rainforests and adjacent sugarcane fields recruit from different species pools34
Biocrusts regulate the effect of rainfall pulses on soil respiration at different temporal scales on the Loess Plateau34
Revising the dynamic energy budget theory with a new reserve mobilization rule and three example applications to bacterial growth34
Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments34
Interactive dynamics between rhizosphere bacterial and viral communities facilitate soybean fitness to cadmium stress revealed by time-series metagenomics34
Physical characterisation of chia mucilage polymeric gel and its implications on rhizosphere science - Integrating imaging, MRI, and modelling to gain insights into plant and microbial amended soils34
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 probing34
Root exudates from drought-affected plants increase soil respiration across a range of grassland species34
Strong conditionality in plant-fungal community assembly after soil inoculation in post-agricultural grasslands34
Time-varying associations between absorptive fine roots and leaf litter decomposition across 23 plant species33
Plant community composition and traits modulate the impacts of drought intensity on soil microbial community composition and function33
Sorption strength determines alanine mineralization in volcanic soils33
Are enzymes transported in soils by water fluxes?33
Different stochastic processes regulate bacterial and fungal community assembly in estuarine wetland soils33
Recording earthworm diversity on the tropical island of Martinique using DNA barcoding unveiled endemic species in bromeliad plants33
Soil aggregate isolation method affects interpretation of protistan community33
Use of metabolomics to quantify changes in soil microbial function in response to fertiliser nitrogen supply and extreme drought33
Phosphorus addition decreases soil fungal richness and alters fungal guilds in two tropical forests33
The role of earthworms in the transformation of labile plant litter into mineral-associated organic matter33
Mapping of suitable habitats for earthworms in China33
Insight into the role of competition in niche differentiation between ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in ammonium-rich alkaline soil: A network-based study32
Earthworm invasion shifts trophic niches of ground-dwelling invertebrates in a North American forest32
UV-B stress reshapes root-associated microbial communities and networks, driven by host plant resistance32
Responses of soil rare and abundant microorganisms to recurring biotic disturbances32
Obituary: Philip Charles Brookes: 26th March 1951–28th September 202332
Agronomic amendments drive a diversity of real and apparent priming responses within a grassland soil32
Plants with nitrate preference can regulate nitrification to meet their nitrate demand32
Life at the extreme: Plant-driven hotspots of soil nutrient cycling in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert32
Prolonged drought causes negative plant-soil feedbacks in grassland species under field conditions32
Different factors control organic matter degradation in bulk and rhizosphere soil from the top- and subsoils of three forest stands31
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