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44-Years of Fertilization Altered Soil Microbial Community Structure by Changing Soil Physical, Chemical Properties and Enzyme Activity
Soil microorganisms play a crucial role in nutrient cycling, maintaining soil fertility, and carbon sequestration in soil. However, our understanding...
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Response of soil physicochemical properties, soil nutrients, enzyme activity and rice yield to rice straw returning in highly saline-alkali paddy soils
This study investigated the effect of rice straw returning on the soil physicochemical properties, nutrients, enzyme activity, and rice yield in...
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Soil Enzyme Activity and Stoichiometry Change with Perennial Mugwort Crop** Cultivation Year in Central China
Our understanding of how intensified land use changes (such as conversion of annual to perennial crops) influence soil extracellular enzymes is still...
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Legume-potato rotation affects soil physicochemical properties, enzyme activity, and rhizosphere metabolism in continuous potato crop**
BackgroundContinuous crop** can reduce soil quality and affect rhizosphere metabolism, ultimately reducing crop yield. Crop rotation can mitigate...
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Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Microbial Diversity and Soil Health
Soil, the fragile top layer of the Earth’s ecosystem, is a crucial natural resource for supporting life on the planet. The majority of terrestrial...
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Soil Enzyme Activity in Natural and Plowed Catenas as Parameters of Physiological State of Microbial Communities
AbstractThe study of soil microbial biomass and enzymatic activity of natural and anthropogenically transformed ecosystems was carried out. The...
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Long-Term Grazing Mediates Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics by Reorienting Enzyme Activities and Elemental Stoichiometry in Semi-arid Tropical Inceptisol
Long-term grazing by small ruminants diminishes grass and plant covers, alters various biophysical situations and nutrient stoichiometry and modifies...
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Efficacy of nematicides, Tricuran-P (Trichoderma harzianum T-22) and chicken manure on cucumber root-knot nematode populations, plant growth and soil enzyme activities
Root-knot nematodes (RKNs), Meloidogyne spp., are globally important plant-parasitic nematodes with a very broad host range including cucumber. In...
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Stimulation of organic N mineralization by N‒acquiring enzyme activity alleviates soil microbial N limitation following afforestation in subtropical karst areas
AimsStoichiometry of soil extracellular enzymes such as the ratios of carbon (C)‒, nitrogen (N)‒, and phosphorus (P)‒acquiring enzymes as well as...
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Seasonal Variation in Carbon Mineralization Kinetics, Microbial Biomass Carbon and Enzyme Activities in the Soils of Three Natural Ecosystems of Kaziranga National Park, Assam, North East India
Soil acts as both source and sink of atmospheric carbon. The dynamic nature of forest soil makes them a critical component of the global carbon...
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Rhizosphere soil keystone taxa of Robinia pseudoacacia and Juniperus sabina in an iron tailings matrix and their effects on soil enzyme activity
Background and aimsRhizosphere soil microorganisms play an important role in improving soil nutrients during the phytoremediation of iron tailings....
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Effects of thinning and understorey removal on soil extracellular enzyme activity vary over time during forest recovery after treatment
Background and aimsSoil extracellular enzyme activities (EEAs) and extracellular enzymatic stoichiometry (EES) play an important role in soil...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi by inducing watermelon roots secretion phthalates, altering soil enzyme activity and bacterial community composition to alleviate the watermelon wilt
BackgroundLong-term continuous crop** has resulted in the frequent occurrence of fusarium wilt of watermelon ( Citrullus lanatus ). AMF inoculation...
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Soil Chemical Properties, Enzyme Activity and Soybean and Corn Yields in a Tropical Soil Under No-till Amended with Lime and Phosphogypsum
Coupled lime and phosphogypsum (PG) application is widely used in no-tillage system (NTS) areas to ameliorate the soil fertility along the soil...
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Effects of tillage regime on soil aggregate-associated carbon, enzyme activity, and microbial community structure in a semiarid agroecosystem
Background and aimsConservation tillage enhances soil aggregate function, —a key factor for promoting soil nutrient cycling and plant growth....
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Change in Microbial Metabolic Quotient Under Biochar Amendment Was Associated with Soil Organic Carbon Quality, Microbial Community Composition, and Enzyme Activity in Bulk and Rhizosphere Soils in an Acid Rice Paddy
Decreases in soil microbial metabolic quotient ( q CO 2 ) have been frequently observed under biochar amendment; however, the potential driving factors...
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Changes of soil chemical properties, microbial biomass and enzymatic activities along a gradient of forest degradation in logged over tropical rain forests, Borneo
PurposeThe purpose of our study was to investigate soil chemical properties, soil microbial biomass and soil enzyme activities in a gradient of...
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A comparative study of soil nutrient availability and enzyme activity under biological soil crusts in different erosion regions of the Loess Plateau, China
PurposeThe influences of biological soil crusts (BSCs) on soil properties have been investigated extensively. However, few studies have compared soil...
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Soil Rhizosphere pH, Enzymatic and Microbial Activities Under Different Nitrogen and Sulfur Fertilization of Soybean (Glycine max L.)
The soil rhizosphere pH, enzymatic activities (dehydrogenase, β-glucosidase, and arylsulfatase), microbial respiration rates, soil microbial...
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Characterization of the Microbial Community Structures, Soil Chemical Properties, and Enzyme Activity of Stellera chamaejasme (Thymelaeaceae) and Its Associated Forages in Alpine Grassland of Northwestern China
The invasion of toxic weeds was detrimental to the growth of original vegetation and speed up the degraded grasslands. The purpose of this study was...
