OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology and Fertility of Soils is 10. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Estimation of baseline levels of bacterial community tolerance to Cr, Ni, Pb, and Zn in unpolluted soils, a background for PICT (pollution-induced community tolerance) determination	109
Temporal recovery of soil biological activity and diversity after 915-MHz microwave treatments	56
Aridity-driven divergence in soil microbial necromass carbon in alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau	56
Responses of bacterial community composition and diversity to multi-level nitrogen addition at different periods of growing season driven by conditional rare taxa in an alpine meadow	44
Time between two partial rewetting events influences the respiration flush and microbial growth after the final rewetting	42
Isolation and characterization of Rhizobium from non-leguminous potato plants: New frontiers in Rhizobium research	37
Common mycorrhizal networks benefit to the asymmetric interspecific facilitation via K exchange in an agricultural intercropping system	35
Syringic acid from rice as a biological nitrification and urease inhibitor and its synergism with 1,9-decanediol	35
Metagenomic data highlight shifted nitrogen regime induced by wetland reclamation	34
Inoculation and tracking of beneficial microbes reveal they can establish in field-grown potato roots and decrease blemish diseases	34
Amplitude and frequency of wetting and drying cycles drive N2 and N2O emissions from a subtropical pasture	33
Biochar amendment increases the abundance and alters the community composition of diazotrophs in a double rice cropping system	33
Leaf economics spectrum prevails over nutrient resorption in regulating the temperature sensitivity of litter decomposition in a subtropical forest ecosystem	31
How tree species with contrasting biological nitrification inhibition capacity influence denitrifier activity and abundance? Insights from reciprocal transfers of soil	30
Simulated heat wave events increase CO2 and N2O emissions from cropland and forest soils in an incubation experiment	29
Stable isotopes for the study of soil C and N under global change	27
Plant sexual variation modulates rhizospheric nutrient processes through the soil microbiome response to drought and rewetting in Populus cathayana	26
Increases of N2O emissions due to enhanced nitrification in a sandy loam soil under long-term manure application	25
The active role of comammox Nitrospira in nitrification in acidic orchard soils revealed by DNA-SIP	25
Fates of slurry-nitrogen applied to mountain grasslands: the importance of dinitrogen emissions versus plant N uptake	25
Shifts in bacterial community in response to conservation management practices within a soybean production system	25
Inhibitory effect of high nitrate on N2O reduction is offset by long moist spells in heavily N loaded arable soils	24
Cover crops offset recalcitrant soil organic carbon losses under plastic-film mulching by altering microbial functional genes	24
Microbial carbon use efficiency of litter with distinct C/N ratios in soil at different temperatures, including microbial necromass as growth component	24
Effect of soil bacteriomes on mycorrhizal colonization by Rhizophagus irregularis—interactive effects on maize (Zea mays L.) growth under salt stress	23

Lysis of soil microbial cells by CO2 or N2 high pressurization compared with chloroform fumigation	22
Spring barley performance benefits from simultaneous shallow straw incorporation and top dressing as revealed by rhizotrons with resealable sampling ports	22
Plant residue-derived hydrophilic and hydrophobic fractions contribute to the formation of soil organic matter	21
A new incubation system to simultaneously measure N2 as well as N2O and CO2 fluxes from plant-soil mesocosms	21
Use of untargeted metabolomics to analyse changes in extractable soil organic matter in response to long-term fertilisation	21
Biochar application reduces residual napropamide in the rhizosphere and improves soil microbial diversity	20
Temperature sensitivity of microbial respiration of soils amended with pine and oak litters is affected by tree growing CO2	20
Restoration of degraded alpine meadows from the perspective of plant–soil feedbacks	20
The contribution of the phototrophic fraction in the fertility of different successional stages of induced biological soil crusts	20
Recommendations about soil Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BNI) studies	18
Interaction between water, crop residue and fertilization management on the source-differentiated nitrogen uptake by rice	18
Protists modulate active bacterial community composition in paddy field soils	18
Biological activities affect the dynamic of P in dryland soils	18
Soil-root interface influences the assembly of the endophytic bacterial community in rice plants	18
Spatial analysis of the root system coupled to microbial community inoculation shed light on rhizosphere bacterial community assembly	18
Impact of the chemical composition of applied organic materials on bacterial and archaeal community compositions in paddy soil	18
Root mucilage nitrogen for rhizosphere microorganisms under drought	17
Dry season residual straw reduces nitrous oxide emissions during rice season in upland-paddy rotation systems by inhibiting soil denitrification	17
Utilisation and transformation of organic and inorganic nitrogen by soil microorganisms and its regulation by excessive carbon and nitrogen availability	17
Absolute microbiome profiling highlights the links among microbial stability, soil health, and crop productivity under long-term sod-based rotation	16
The priming effect dynamics are driven by microbial activation and growth and constrained by the relative availability of input C and soil N	16
Climate warming in an alpine meadow: differential responses of soil faunal vs. microbial effects on litter decomposition	16
Greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, and N2O) emissions after abandonment of agriculture	16
Correction to: Niche differentiation and higher uptake of available nitrogen maintained the productivity of alpine meadow at early degradation	15
Bacteria from the rhizosphere of a selenium hyperaccumulator plant can improve the selenium uptake of a non-hyperaccumulator plant	15
Correction to: Type I methanotrophs dominated methane oxidation and assimilation in rice paddy fields by the consequence of niche differentiation	15
Correction to: Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	15
Land use types affect soil microbial NO3− immobilization through changed fungal and bacterial contribution in alkaline soils of a subtropical montane agricultural landscape	15
The effect of agroecosystem management on the distribution of C functional groups in soil organic matter: A review	14
Higher ammonium-to-nitrate ratio shapes distinct soil nitrifying community and favors the growth of Moso bamboo in contrast to broadleaf tree species	14
Protists: the hidden ecosystem players in a wetland rice field soil	14
Halophyte functional groups influence seasonal variations in rhizosphere microbial necromass and enzyme activities in an inland saline ecosystem	14
Nitrogen isotope enrichment predicts growth response of Pinus radiata in New Zealand to nitrogen fertiliser addition	14
Correction to: Dynamic changes in soil fungal communities and functional groups in response to sugarcane/soybean intercropping with reduced nitrogen fertilizer application	14
Competition for nitrogen between plants and microorganisms in grasslands: effect of nitrogen application rate and plant acquisition strategy	14
C:P stoichiometric imbalance between soil and microorganisms drives microbial phosphorus turnover in the rhizosphere	13
Crop residue application at low rates could improve soil phosphorus cycling under long-term no-tillage management	13
Varying soil moisture and pH with alpine meadow degradation affect nitrogen preference of dominant species	13
Foreword	13
Difference in soil microbial necromass carbon accumulation induced by three crops straw mulching for 4 years in a citrus orchard	13
Assessing the impacts of tillage, cover crops, nitrification, and urease inhibitors on nitrous oxide emissions over winter and early spring	13
Pre-sowing recurrent inoculation with Pseudomonas fluorescens promotes maize growth	12
Increased microbial carbon use efficiency and turnover rate drive soil organic carbon storage in old-aged forest on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau	12
Philip Charles Brookes, 23 March 1951 to 28 September 2023	12
Recommendations for stronger biochar research in soil biology and fertility	12
Full-factorial resource amendment experiments reveal carbon limitation of rhizosphere microbes in alpine coniferous forests	12
Nitrogen input differentially shapes the rhizosphere microbiome diversity and composition across diverse maize lines	12
Root-derived C distribution drives N transport and transformation after 13C and 15 N labelling on paddy and upland soils	12
Soil N2O flux and nitrification and denitrification gene responses to feed-induced differences in the composition of dairy cow faeces	12
Mechanism of increased soil phosphorus availability in a calcareous soil by ammonium polyphosphate	12

Land use drives prokaryotic community composition of directly adjacent grasslands	12
Using fluorescence lifetime imaging to disentangle microbes from the heterogeneous soil matrix	12
Litter quality controls the contribution of microbial carbon to main microbial groups and soil organic carbon during its decomposition	11
The causes of the selection of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) in relation to ecosystem functioning and a research agenda to explore them	11
Does liming improve microbial carbon use efficiency after maize litter addition in a tropical acidic soil?	11
Plant growth–promoting bacteria improve maize growth through reshaping the rhizobacterial community in low-nitrogen and low-phosphorus soil	11
Impact of repeated irrigation of lettuce cultures with municipal wastewater on the diversity and composition of root-associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	11
Contrasting effects of elevated CO2 on autotrophic prokaryotes with different CO2 fixation strategies in tea plantation soil	11
Phospholipid fatty acids in soil—drawbacks and future prospects	11
Synergism between feremycorrhizal symbiosis and free-living diazotrophs leads to improved growth and nutrition of wheat under nitrogen deficiency conditions	11
Yak dung pat fragmentation decreases yield-scaled growing-season nitrous oxide emissions in an alpine steppe on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau	10
Targeted regulation of the microbiome by green manuring to promote tobacco growth	10
Organic fertilization drives shifts in microbiome complexity and keystone taxa increase the resistance of microbial mediated functions to biodiversity loss	10
How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils	10
Microbial and isotopomer analysis of N2O production pathways in a calcareous film-mulched farmland	10
Recommendations for plant growth-promoting bacteria inoculation studies	10
Microbiome dynamics of soils covered by plastic and bioplastic mulches	10