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Strategic tillage increased the relative abundance of Acidobacteria but did not impact on overall soil microbial properties of a 19-year no-till Solonetz
Continuous no-till (NT) farming is widely practiced in Australia, but it is prone to weed infestation. Strategic tillage (ST) can be used to...
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Functional diversity of soil microbial communities in boreal and temperate Scots pine forests
Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.) is one of the most widespread conifer species in Europe, able to tolerate a wide variety of climatic conditions. The...
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Contributions of Composition and Interactions to Bacterial Respiration Are Reliant on the Phylogenetic Similarity of the Measured Community
Bacterial diversity underpins many ecosystem functions; however, the impact of within-species variation on the relationship between diversity and...
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Changes in soil microbial substrate utilization in response to altered litter diversity and precipitation in a Mediterranean shrubland
This study aimed at quantifying the consequences of reduced precipitation and plant diversity on soil microbial community functioning in a...
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The mineralisation of dissolved organic matter recovered from temperate waterbodies during summer
Natural dissolved organic matter (DOM) has many forms in freshwaters, controlling C availability for heterotrophic respiration and ecosystem...
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Soil type determines how root and rhizosphere traits relate to phosphorus acquisition in field-grown maize genotypes
AimsPhosphorus (P) is frequently limiting crop production in agroecosystems. Large progress was achieved in understanding root traits associated with...
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Occasional tillage has no effect on soil microbial biomass, activity and composition in Vertisols under long-term no-till
Heavy rains in recent years have triggered an increase in herbicide-resistant weeds and crop diseases in long-term no-till (NT) farming systems in...
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The relationship between soil bacteria substrate utilisation patterns and the vegetation structure in temperate forests
The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between the functional diversity pattern of soil bacteria and the vegetation diversity and...
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Aspects of soil lichen biodiversity and aggregation interact to influence subsurface microbial function
Background and aimsMany previous studies have evaluated aboveground–heterotrophic belowground interactions such as plant-soil feedbacks,...
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Soil conditioning and plant-soil feedbacks in a modified forest ecosystem are soil-context dependent
AimsThere is potential for altered plant-soil feedback (PSF) to develop in human-modified ecosystems but empirical data to test this idea are...
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Soil substrate utilization pattern and relation of functional evenness of plant groups and soil microbial community in five low mountain NATURA 2000
Background and aimsSpecies rich, semi-natural grassland systems provide several ecosystem functions. The goal was to assess how aboveground...
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Changes in Soil Microbial Biomass and Residual Indices as Ecological Indicators of Land Use Change in Temperate Permanent Grassland
The relationship between microbial biomass, residues and their contribution to microbial turnover is important to understand ecosystem C storage. The...
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Litter fingerprint on microbial biomass, activity, and community structure in the underlying soil
AimsLittle is known about how plant leaf litter decomposing on the soil surface is affecting microbial communities in the underlying soil. Here we...
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Microbial Functional Diversity Associated with Plant Litter Decomposition Along a Climatic Gradient
Predicted changes in climate associated with increased greenhouse gas emissions can cause increases in global mean temperature and changes in...
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Discriminatory power of MicroResp^TM^ analyses across variable spatial scales in semiarid ecological zones
Indirect assessment of enzymatic activity potential via substrate induced respiration is a common tool used to evaluate variability in soil microbial...
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Soil Disturbance Increases Soil Microbial Enzymatic Activity in Arid Ecoregions
Functional diversity of the soil microbial community is commonly used in the assessment of soil health as it relates to the activity of soil...
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Effects of forest wildfire on soil microbial-community activity and chemical components on a temporal-seasonal scale
BackgroundSoil response and rehabilitation after wildfires are affected by natural environmental factors such as seasonality, and other...
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How Fen Vegetation Structure Affects the Transport of Oil Sands Process-affected Waters
Oil sands mining in the Athabasca oil sands region disturbs large tracts of peatlands as the vegetation-soil layer must be removed. Processing oil...
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Response of soil microbial communities to management strategies for enhancing Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) establishment on heather (Calluna vulgaris) moorland
Active management to encourage the expansion of native pine woodland onto neighbouring moorland has been suggested as a tool to promote increases in...
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Soil microbial activity and a free-living nematode community in the playa and in the sandy biological crust of the Negev Desert
The effect of environmental factors and soil properties on microbial and soil free-living nematode communities was investigated in two desert soil...
