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Responses of soil nutrients and microbial communities to the application of spent mushroom substrates
Background and aimsSpent mushroom substrates (SMSs) are widely used as organic fertilizer due to their high nutrients. However, the contribution of...
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Differences in soil microbial communities with successional stage depend on vegetation coverage and soil substrates in alpine desert shrublands
Background and aimsIn semiarid ecosystems, changes in plant communities are promoted under shrub canopies during restoration, but the link between...
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Divergent mineralization of exogenous organic substrates and their priming effects depending on soil types
The priming effect (PE) induced by exogenous organic substrate input plays an important role in the soil carbon balance. However, little is known...
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Water’s path from moss to soil Vol. 2: how soil-moss combinations affect soil water fluxes and soil loss in a temperate forest
Mosses are key components of many ecosystems and particularly related to water cycling. In principle, the importance of mosses for water-related...
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Effects of soil properties and carbon substrates on bacterial diversity of two sunflower farms
The sustainable production of sunflower ( Helianthus annuus ) is crucial and one way to accomplish this feat is to have an understanding of the...
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Assessing the ecophysiological effects of iron mining tailings on velvet bean: implications for growth limitations based on mineral composition and physicochemical properties of tailings-soil substrates
Besides the human need for mining activities, they contribute to environmental degradation in different ways, such as physical destruction of the...
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Soil compaction reversed the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on soil hydraulic properties
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) typically provide a wide range of nutritional benefits to their host plants, and their role in plant water uptake,...
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Quantifying the Respiratory Pattern of Rhizosphere Microbial Communities in Healthy and Diseased Tomato Plants Using Carbon Substrates
The sustainable production of tomatoes ( Solanum lycopersicum ) is important, and this can be achieved by determining the rate of respiration of...
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Allelotoxicity of Greenhouse Substrates after Vegetable Cultivation
AbstractCrop exposure to stress during cultivation is known to reduce the yield and to cause the release of allelotoxins from plants into soil. It...
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Using crushed waste bricks for urban greening with contrasting grassland mixtures: no negative effects of brick-augmented substrates varying in soil type, moisture and acid pre-treatment
Ecological restoration aims at supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services, and urban greening is a great opportunity to achieve this goal. This...
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Tolerant plant growth improves the conversion of bauxite residue to soil-like substrates by altering aggregate stability
AimsIt is commonly recognized that the bauxite residue can be transformed into a soil-like substrate to support plant growth by altering the...
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Soil Microbiome as a Key Factor in Soil Health
The present demands for both sustaining food security and the environment, impose a great challenge to the field of agriculture. Conventional...
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Microbial Enzymes for Soil Health
Soil enzymes `activate various key reactions necessary for the life processes of soil-based microorganisms in agriculture. Soil enzymes are important...
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Soil biota and soil substrates influence responses of the rhizomatous clonal grass Leymus chinensis to nutrient heterogeneity
AimsThe positive effects of spatial heterogeneity in soil nutrients on plant performance have been well documented, but whether such effects depend...
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Response of lettuce grown in potting soil semi-solidified with agar
The aim of the study was to develop a soil-based cultivation method to grow lettuce indoors for 28 days without the need for irrigation or...
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Sustainable Production of Biosurfactants Using Waste Substrates
Biosurfactants have many beneficial properties such as high effectiveness and biodegradability with low toxicity. However, although they have proven...
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Increased brick ratio in urban substrates has a marginal effect on tree saplings
From construction and demolition of buildings, brick wastes accumulate in large quantities and are difficult to recycle. Re-using bricks as planting...
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Biological Soil Remediation
It was not until the seventies of the last century that the dangers posed by soil contamination known as contaminated sites were recognised....
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Substrate and community regulations on microbial necromass accumulation from newly added and native soil carbon
Microbial necromass accrual via anabolism is an important process contributing to the formation and accumulation of stable soil organic C (SOC). Both...
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Influence of Vermicompost on Soil Health
The influence of vermicompost on soil health is a topic of increasing significance in sustainable agriculture and land management. This chapter...