Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

This study compares soil organic carbon storage in urban greenspaces and natural ecosystems, finding comparable SOC stocks with MAOC being more stable across land uses.

This study examines how warming and cover crops influence soil microbial function under repeated drying and rewetting cycles, finding that cover crops enhance microbial adaptation to drought.

This study examines how fertilization affects microbial communities across trophic compartments in grassland ecosystems, revealing host-dependent changes and indirect effects through nutrient availability.

This study investigates how fungal and bacterial communities influence necromass formation and stability in soil, finding that complex microbial communities and fungal presence enhance SOC persistence.

This study examines soil respiration in tropical forests, finding it correlates with rainfall and soil moisture across multiple time scales, but not temperature, suggesting monsoon patterns drive future responses.

This study analyzes decomposition responses to warming across global macro-environmental gradients, finding that warming effects vary significantly depending on moisture and temperature, with a threshold of 5.2°C for significant decomposition increase.

This paper introduces a high-throughput screening platform for biological nitrification inhibitors using soil-relevant ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms and validates it with known inhibitors.

The paper investigates how reactive oxygen species (ROS) from soil microbes influence volatile reactive nitrogen oxide (NOy) production, showing increased NOy emissions with higher abundance of ammonia-oxidising and denitrifying taxa.

The paper investigates how fungal traits influence soil organic matter formation and finds that multifunctional species with intermediate trait investments enhance SOM formation and stability.

The paper develops a conceptual framework explaining spatial variation in soil N2O emissions by analyzing biogeochemical properties in maize fields.

This study examines how microbial communities in organic and conventional farming systems respond to drought, finding that fungal communities are more affected than prokaryotes, and that farming practices may not sufficiently buffer drought stress.

This study examines how bacterivorous nematodes and maize litter amendments influence bacterial and archaeal population dynamics in soil over 32 days.

This study shows that long-term warming reduces microbial trait diversity related to resource acquisition in soil, altering the relationship between microbial traits and ecosystem function.

The paper investigates nutrient limitation in temperate herbaceous vegetation, finding phosphorus availability as the primary driver, with soil pH significantly influencing nutrient limitation types.

This study examines how glacier retreat affects soil development and vegetation succession, showing increased carbon storage and soil respiration during intermediate stages of ecosystem development.

This study examines how converting forests to agricultural land affects soil black carbon content in a karst rocky desertification area, finding higher BC in secondary forests compared to farmland and wasteland.

The paper examines how local factors like topography and soil type influence surface soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics after timber harvesting in a second-growth forest.

This study investigates N2O emissions from forage conservation and finds it could be a significant source, with chlorate reducing emissions but other factors having no effect.

The paper compares EL-FAME, PLFA, and qPCR methods for quantifying soil microbial abundances and finds EL-FAME and PLFA are more reliable than qPCR, with PLFA better for detecting small changes in forest soils.

This study quantifies microscale hotspots of aerobic respiration and denitrification in soil by analyzing POM distribution, revealing distal POM as a key driver of denitrification and highlighting the need for improved predictive models.

The paper investigates rhizosphere priming effects in treeline soils, finding that organic soils show greater priming magnitude than mineral soils, with priming direction influenced by plant productivity and sampling time.

The paper investigates how environmental and litter traits influence microbial decomposer functions and mass loss in different ecosystems.

This study evaluates the impact of enhanced rock weathering on soil organic matter pools over two years, finding reduced mineral-associated organic matter accrual without net losses of soil organic carbon.

The paper estimates global root exudate carbon fluxes using in situ measurements and fine root biomass, finding a global flux of 15.2 PgC y-1, with no biome differences in mass-specific rates but higher total fluxes in grasslands.

This study examines microbial growth dynamics on maize rhizodeposits and exudates at varying concentrations, identifying distinct C-thresholds and nutrient limitations.

This study shows that fungal melanin content and soil mineral properties interact to influence the formation of fungal-derived mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) in soils.

The paper develops a dynamic model for carbon and nitrogen cycle interactions in terrestrial ecosystems, demonstrating its stability and functionality for simulating seasonal variations of C and N fluxes and pools.

This study shows soil viruses reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase microbial necromass, influencing soil carbon storage through viral-mediated microbial mortality.

This study investigates how a deep-rooted grass and a shallow-rooted grass influence nitrifier communities and nitrification rates in topsoil and subsoil through different mechanisms.

This study investigates N2O reduction in acidic tropical soils, finding distinct microbial communities and novel taxa associated with N2O reduction at low pH.