Comparison of soil bacterial community and functional characteristics following afforestation in the semi-arid areas

The effects of afforestation on soil bacterial communities in temperate grassland are modulated by soil chemical properties

(2019) Shu-Hong Wu et al.   PeerJ

Different revegetation types alter soil physical-chemical characteristics and fungal community in the Baishilazi Nature Reserve

(2019) Jiaojiao Deng et al.   PeerJ

Effects of tree species and soil properties on the composition and diversity of the soil bacterial community following afforestation

(2018) Jinliang Liu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Ecological compensation for desertification control: A review

(2018) Dajing Li et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

Tree species and recovery time drives soil restoration after mining: A chronosequence study

(2018) Songho Kim et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Characteristics of soil moisture under different vegetation coverage in Horqin Sandy Land, northern China

(2018) Tingting Yang et al.   PLoS One

Changes in soil microbial community structure and function after afforestation depend on species and age: Case study in a subtropical alluvial island

(2018) Hongzhang Kang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Ecosystem functions including soil organic carbon, total nitrogen and available potassium are crucial for vegetation recovery

(2018) Kaiyang Qiu et al.   Scientific Reports

Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Inputs on Soil Bacterial Abundance, Diversity, and Community Composition in Chinese Fir Plantations

(2018) Qing Wang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Contrasting Soil Bacterial Community, Diversity, and Function in Two Forests in China

(2018) Hua Wei et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Variations in Soil Bacterial Community Diversity and Structures Among Different Revegetation Types in the Baishilazi Nature Reserve

(2018) Jiaojiao Deng et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Drivers and assemblies of soil eukaryotic microbes among different soil habitat types in a semi-arid mountain in China

(2018) He Zhao et al.   PeerJ

Functional structure of the bromeliad tank microbiome is strongly shaped by local geochemical conditions

(2017) Stilianos Louca et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effects of stand age and soil properties on soil bacterial and fungal community composition in Chinese pine plantations on the Loess Plateau

(2017) Peng Dang et al.   PLoS One

Parent material and conifer biome influence microbial residue accumulation in forest soils

(2017) Xueli Ding et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Species diversity and drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a semi-arid mountain in China

(2017) He Zhao et al.   PeerJ

Residue management leading to higher field-scale N 2 O flux is associated with different soil bacterial nitrifier and denitrifier gene community structures

(2016) Elizabeth Bent et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

The ecological economics of land degradation: Impacts on ecosystem service values

(2016) Paul C. Sutton et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Multiple afforestation programs accelerate the greenness in the ‘Three North’ region of China from 1982 to 2013

(2016) Yao Zhang et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Linkages of C:N:P stoichiometry and bacterial community in soil following afforestation of former farmland

(2016) Chengjie Ren et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Biochar alters the soil microbiome and soil function: results of next-generation amplicon sequencing across Europe

(2016) Joseph R. Jenkins et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

The importance of C, N and P as driver for bacterial community structure in German beech dominated forest soils

(2016) Fabian Bergkemper et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

A global meta-analysis of soil phosphorus dynamics after afforestation

(2016) Qi Deng et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Response of soil microbial community to afforestation with pure and mixed species

(2016) Anna Gunina et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome

(2016) S. Louca et al.   SCIENCE

Present and future of desertification in Spain: Implementation of a surveillance system to prevent land degradation

(2016) Jaime Martínez-Valderrama et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Network analysis reveals functional redundancy and keystone taxa amongst bacterial and fungal communities during organic matter decomposition in an arable soil

(2016) Samiran Banerjee et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effect of agricultural economic growth on sandy desertification in Horqin Sandy Land

(2015) Xiaodong Ge et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Operationalizing Zero Net Land Degradation: The next stage in international efforts to combat desertification?

(2015) Pamela Chasek et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Assessing desertification risk in the semi-arid highlands of central Mexico

(2015) Rocio Becerril-Piña et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Desertification Research in Argentina

(2015) Laura Torres et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Evaluating the evolution of forest restoration research in a changing world: a “big literature” review

(2015) Gabriela C. Nunez-Mir et al.   NEW FORESTS

Complex Adaptive Systems, soil degradation and land sensitivity to desertification: A multivariate assessment of Italian agro-forest landscape

(2015) Luca Salvati et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Impact of long-term N additions upon coupling between soil microbial community structure and activity, and nutrient-use efficiencies

(2015) Yangquanwei Zhong et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

STAMP: statistical analysis of taxonomic and functional profiles

(2014) Donovan H. Parks et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Biomass carbon storage and its sequestration potential of afforestation under natural forest protection program in China

(2014) Wangming Zhou et al.   Chinese Geographical Science

Assessment of effects of two runoff control engineering practices on soil water and plant growth for afforestation in a semi-arid area after 10 years

(2014) Fu Zhang et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Effects of desertification on temporal and spatial distribution of soil macro-arthropods in Horqin sandy grassland, Inner Mongolia

(2014) Ha-Lin Zhao et al.   GEODERMA

Denitrification versus respiratory ammonification: environmental controls of two competing dissimilatory NO3−/NO2− reduction pathways in Shewanella loihica strain PV-4

(2014) Sukhwan Yoon et al.   ISME Journal

Soil bacterial communities of different natural forest types in Northeast China

(2014) Hui Li et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature

(2014) S.-S. Peng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earlier vegetation green-up has reduced spring dust storms

(2014) Bihang Fan et al.   Scientific Reports

Salt tolerance mechanisms in Salt Tolerant Grasses (STGs) and their prospects in cereal crop improvement

(2014) Swarnendu Roy et al.   Botanical Studies

Bacterial diversity and community structure along different peat soils in boreal forest

(2013) Hui Sun et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Responses of bacterial and fungal communities to an elevation gradient in a subtropical montane forest of China

(2012) Han Meng et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Soil microbial biomass, functional microbial diversity, and nematode community structure as affected by cover crops and compost in an organic vegetable production system

(2012) Ajay Nair et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Bacterial community structure and its relationship to soil physico-chemical characteristics in alder stands with different management histories

(2012) Jens-Konrad Preem et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Scale dependent effects of environmental factors on vegetation pattern and composition in Horqin Sandy Land, Northern China

(2012) Xiaoan Zuo et al.   GEODERMA

Characterization of Soil Bacterial Assemblies in Brazilian Savanna-Like Vegetation Reveals Acidobacteria Dominance

(2012) Janaina F. Araujo et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Global Biogeography and Quantitative Seasonal Dynamics of Gemmatimonadetes in Soil

(2011) Jennifer M. DeBruyn et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients

(2011) Noah Fierer et al.   ISME Journal

Effects of single and mixed species forest ecosystems on diversity and function of soil microbial community in subtropical China

(2011) Yumei Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Desertification alters the response of vegetation to changes in precipitation

(2010) Santiago R. Verón et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Reversal of desertification: The role of physical and chemical soil properties

(2010) G.R.H. Allington et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Soil microbial biomass, activity and community composition in adjacent native and plantation forests of subtropical Australia

(2010) Joanne Burton et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Change in Bacterial Community Structure in Response to Disturbance of Natural Hardwood and Secondary Coniferous Forest Soils in Central Taiwan

(2010) Yu-Te Lin et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Amino acid fingerprint of a grassland soil reflects changes in plant species richness

(2010) Leopold Sauheitl et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale

(2009) C. L. Lauber et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Defining the healthy "core microbiome" of oral microbial communities

(2009) Egija Zaura et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Selecting biological indicators for monitoring soils: A framework for balancing scientific and technical opinion to assist policy development

(2009) Karl Ritz et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Soil organic carbon stock change due to land use activity along the agricultural frontier of the southwestern Amazon, Brazil, between 1970 and 2002

(2009) STOÉCIO M. F. MAIA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses

(2009) Ryan T Jones et al.   ISME Journal

Effects of zincate treatment on adhesion of electroless Ni-P coating onto various aluminum alloys

(2009) Makoto HINO et al.   TRANSACTIONS OF NONFERROUS METALS SOCIETY OF CHINA

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Chemical properties, microbial respiration, and decomposition of coarse and fine particulate organic matter

(2008) Chihiro Yoshimura et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BENTHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Spatial heterogeneity of soil properties and vegetation–soil relationships following vegetation restoration of mobile dunes in Horqin Sandy Land, Northern China

(2008) Xiaoan Zuo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Long-term manuring and fertilization effects on soil organic carbon pools under a wheat–maize cropping system in North China Plain

(2008) Wei Gong et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Environmental and anthropogenic controls over bacterial communities in wetland soils

(2008) W. H. Hartman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Timber harvesting alters soil carbon mineralization and microbial community structure in coniferous forests

(2008) A. Chatterjee et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Variations in the soil microbial community composition of a tropical montane forest ecosystem: Does tree species matter?

(2008) Masayuki Ushio et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities across land-use types

(2008) Christian L. Lauber et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Extent and characterisation of salt-affected soils in Iran and strategies for their amelioration and management

(2007) M. Qadir et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT