Indicators for assessment of soil quality: a mini-review

Silver Nanoparticles Alter Soil Microbial Community Compositions and Metabolite Profiles in Unplanted and Cucumber-Planted Soils

(2020) Huiling Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Effects of land use and elevation on the functional characteristics of soil enzymes at Mt. Kilimanjaro

(2020) Emanueli M. Ndossi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Soil microbial diversity drops with land‐use change in a high mountain temperate forest: a metagenomics survey

(2020) Ligia C. Muñoz‐Arenas et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

A Small Effort for Researchers, a Big Gain for Soil Metaproteomics

(2020) Marco Chiapello et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Metatranscriptomics: an approach for retrieving novel eukaryotic genes from polluted and related environments

(2020) Arkadeep Mukherjee et al.   3 Biotech

Effects of Cowpea-Amaranth Intercropping and Fertiliser Application on Soil Phosphatase Activities, Available Soil Phosphorus, and Crop Growth Response

(2020) Buhlebelive Mndzebele et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Biostimulants applied to maize seeds modulate the enzymatic activity and metaproteome of the rhizosphere

(2020) Monica Mattarozzi et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Use of untargeted metabolomics for assessing soil quality and microbial function

(2020) Emma Withers et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of the long-term application of atrazine on soil enzyme activity and bacterial community structure in farmlands in China

(2020) Yufei Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Dynamics of culturable microbial fraction in an Inceptisol under short-term amendment with municipal sludge from different sources

(2019) Trisha Roy et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Effects of biogas residues containing antibiotics on soil enzyme activity and lettuce growth

(2019) Jiancong Han et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Protist communities are more sensitive to nitrogen fertilization than other microorganisms in diverse agricultural soils

(2019) Zhi-Bo Zhao et al.   Microbiome

Evaluation of soil physical properties of long-used cultivated lands as a deriving indicator of soil degradation, north Ethiopia

(2019) Berhane Lema et al.   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Heavy metal hypertolerant eukaryotic aldehyde dehydrogenase isolated from metal contaminated soil by metatranscriptomics approach

(2019) Arkadeep Mukherjee et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Denitrification in paddy soil as a cooperative process of different nitrogen oxide reducers, revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis of denitrification-induced soil microcosm

(2019) Yoko Masuda et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Metaproteomics: Much More than Measuring Gene Expression in Microbial Communities

(2019) Manuel Kleiner   mSystems

Draft genome of Streptomyces sp. strain 130 and functional analysis of extracellular enzyme producing genes

(2019) Munendra Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

Functional Metagenomics to Mine Soil Microbiome for Novel Cadmium Resistance Genetic Determinants

(2019) Xin ZHENG et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Soil quality assessment of wheat-maize cropping system with different productivities in China: Establishing a minimum data set

(2019) Peng Li et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Metaphenomic Responses of a Native Prairie Soil Microbiome to Moisture Perturbations

(2019) Taniya Roy Chowdhury et al.   mSystems

Response of Microbial Communities and Their Metabolic Functions to Drying–Rewetting Stress in a Temperate Forest Soil

(2019) Dong Liu et al.   Microorganisms

Temporal changes in biochemical indicators of soil quality in response to tillage, crop residue and green manure management in a rice-wheat system

(2019) Rituparna Saikia et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Arbuscular mycorrhizal-like fungi and glomalin-related soil protein drive the distributions of carbon and nitrogen in a large scale

(2019) Xiang Li et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Pore morphology reveals interaction of biological and physical processes for structure formation in soils of the semiarid Argentinean Pampa

(2019) Romina Fernández et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Soil Microbial Communities and Enzyme Activities after Long-Term Application of Inorganic and Organic Fertilizers at Different Depths of the Soil Profile

(2019) Ladislav Holík et al.   Sustainability

Competitive redox reaction of Au-NCs/MnO2 nanocomposite: Toward colorimetric and fluorometric detection of acid phosphatase as an indicator of soil cadmium contamination

(2019) Miao Xu et al.   ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA

Soil biological activity as an indicator of soil pollution with pesticides – A review

(2019) Elżbieta Wołejko et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Long‐term effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on soil microbial community structure and function under continuous wheat production

(2019) Yunliang Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Copper stress in flooded soil: Impact on enzyme activities, microbial community composition and diversity in the rhizosphere of Salix integra

(2019) Yini Cao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Sulfate fertilization supports growth of ryegrass in soil columns but changes microbial community structures and reduces abundances of nematodes and arbuscular mycorrhiza

(2019) Israel Ikoyi et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Reduced tillage and increased residue retention increase enzyme activity and carbon and nitrogen concentrations in soil particle size fractions in a long-term field experiment on Loess Plateau in China

(2019) Haiqing Chen et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Using metagenomics to reveal landscape scale patterns of denitrifiers in a montane forest ecosystem

(2019) C. Armanda Roco et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil microbial biomass, activity and community structure as affected by mineral phosphorus fertilization in grasslands

(2019) Yichao Shi et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Soil nematode communities as indicators of soil health in different land use types in tropical area

(2019) Dandan Gao et al.   NEMATOLOGY

Assessing structural and functional indicators of soil nitrogen availability in reclaimed forest ecosystems using 15N-labelled aspen litter

(2018) Charlotte E. Norris et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Soil quality indicator selection in Chilean volcanic soils formed under temperate and humid conditions

(2018) Susana R. Valle et al.   CATENA

The soil microbiome — from metagenomics to metaphenomics

(2018) Janet K Jansson et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Testate amoebae as functionally significant bioindicators in forest-to-bog restoration

(2018) Angela L. Creevy et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Selecting fungal disturbance indicators to compare forest soil profile re-construction regimes

(2018) Nicole Sukdeo et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Ciliates as bioindicators of CO 2 in soil

(2018) R. Gabilondo et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Response of edible amaranth cultivar to salt stress led to Cd mobilization in rhizosphere soil: A metabolomic analysis

(2018) Shi-Hong Guo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Cellulose decomposition in clay and sandy soils contaminated with heavy metals

(2018) S. A. Haddad et al.   International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Soil uranium concentration at Ranger Uranium Mine Land Application Areas drives changes in the bacterial community

(2018) Saqib Mumtaz et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY

Ecological evaluation of polymetallic soil quality: the applicability of culture-dependent methods of bacterial communities studying

(2018) Andrey Gorovtsov et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Over twenty years farmland reforestation decreases fungal diversity of soils, but stimulates the return of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities

(2018) Nan Hui et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Selecting the minimum data set and quantitative soil quality indexing of alkaline soils under different land uses in northeastern China

(2018) Pujia Yu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Soil quality – A critical review

(2018) Else K. Bünemann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health

(2018) Magdalena Frąc et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparative Metatranscriptomics of Wheat Rhizosphere Microbiomes in Disease Suppressive and Non-suppressive Soils for Rhizoctonia solani AG8

(2018) Helen L. Hayden et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of three biochar types on activity of β-glucosidase enzyme in two agricultural soils of different textures

(2018) Elif Günal et al.   Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Soil quality assessment across different stands in tropical moist deciduous forests of Nagaland, India

(2018) Gaurav Mishra et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

Enzymatic variation of soils exposed to the impact of the soda plant in terms of biochemical parameters

(2018) J. Lemanowicz et al.   International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Modelling of soil cation exchange capacity for some soils of east gharaf lands from mid-Mesopotamian plain (Wasit province/Iraq)

(2018) N. S. Rahal et al.   International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Soil Bulk Density Estimation Methods: A Review

(2018) Ahmed Abed Gatea AL-SHAMMARY et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Metabolomics approaches for the discrimination of disease suppressive soils for Rhizoctonia solani AG8 in cereal crops using 1H NMR and LC-MS

(2018) Helen L. Hayden et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

How potassium deficiency alters flower bud retention on cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)

(2018) Dimitra A. Loka et al.   Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Perspectives of potassium solubilizing microbes in sustainable food production system: A review

(2018) Annum Sattar et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Soil quality assessment in Yellow River Delta: Establishing a minimum data set and fuzzy logic model

(2018) Chunsheng Wu et al.   GEODERMA

Using proteins to study how microbes contribute to soil ecosystem services: The current state and future perspectives of soil metaproteomics

(2018) Robert Starke et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Phosphate addition increases tropical forest soil respiration primarily by deconstraining microbial population growth

(2018) Eric R. Johnston et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The effects of struvite and sewage sludge on plant yield and the microbial community of a semiarid Mediterranean soil

(2018) F. Bastida et al.   GEODERMA

Response of microbial communities and enzyme activities to amendments in saline-alkaline soils

(2018) Shaohua Shi et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Interpretation of soil quality indicators for land suitability assessment – A multivariate approach for Central European arable soils

(2018) Katalin Juhos et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Soil organic matter as sole indicator of soil degradation

(2017) S.E. Obalum et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Estimating soil bulk density with information metrics of soil texture

(2017) Miguel Ángel Martín et al.   GEODERMA

A standard method for the routine sampling of terrestrial diatom communities for soil quality assessment

(2017) Carlos Barragán et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

Approach to the potential usage of two wood ashes waste as soil amendments on the basis of the dehydrogenase activity and soil oxygen consumption

(2017) Juan A. Campos et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Direct effects of soil organic matter on productivity mirror those observed with organic amendments

(2017) Emily E. Oldfield et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Response of bacterial communities to Pb smelter pollution in contrasting soils

(2017) Arnaud R. Schneider et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The impacts of organic amendments: Do they confer stability against drought on the soil microbial community?

(2017) F. Bastida et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Characterization of soil fertility using the Rasch model

(2017) Francisco J Moral et al.   Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

The biological activities of β-glucosidase, phosphatase and urease as soil quality indicators: a review

(2017) A.T. Adetunji et al.   Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Effect of soil properties, heavy metals and emerging contaminants in the soil nematodes diversity

(2016) Carmen Gutiérrez et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Biodiversity patterns of soil ciliates along salinity gradients

(2016) Feng Zhao et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Effect of biochar additions to soil on nitrogen leaching, microbial biomass and bacterial community structure

(2016) Nan Xu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Metagenomics, Metatranscriptomics, and Metabolomics Approaches for Microbiome Analysis

(2016) Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido et al.   Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Behaviour of mesotrione in maize and soil system and its influence on soil dehydrogenase activity

(2016) Piotr Kaczynski et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The impact of chemical pollution on the resilience of soils under multiple stresses: A conceptual framework for future research

(2016) Andreas Schaeffer et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

16S metagenomics reveals changes in the soil bacterial community driven by soil organic C, N-fertilizer and tillage-crop residue management

(2016) Yosef Chávez-Romero et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Direct measurement and prediction of bulk density on alluvial soils of central Chile

(2016) Manuel Casanova et al.   Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research

A multi-omic future for microbiome studies

(2016) Janet K. Jansson et al.   Nature Microbiology

Similar small-scale variation of diatom assemblages on different substrates in a mesotrophic stream

(2015) Maria Kahlert et al.   ACTA BOTANICA CROATICA

Metatranscriptomic census of active protists in soils

(2015) Stefan Geisen et al.   ISME Journal

Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Arctic Peat Soil Microbiota

(2014) Alexander T. Tveit et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Long-term effects of potassium fertilization on yield, efficiency, and soil fertility status in a rain-fed maize system in northeast China

(2014) Shaojun Qiu et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Growth of streptomycetes in soil and their impact on bioremediation

(2014) Eileen Schütze et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

A minimum data set for evaluating the ecological soil functions in remediation projects

(2014) Yevheniya Volchko et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Soil water availability strongly alters the community composition of soil protists

(2014) Geisen Stefan et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Long-term effects of mineral fertilizers on soil microorganisms – A review

(2014) Daniel Geisseler et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Ecology of testate amoebae and their potential use as palaeohydrologic indicators from peatland in Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China

(2014) Lihong Song et al.   Frontiers of Earth Science

Physicochemical and biological quality of soil in hexavalent chromium-contaminated soils as affected by chemical and microbial remediation

(2013) Yingping Liao et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Metabolomic analysis of soil communities can be used for pollution assessment

(2013) Oliver A.H. Jones et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Spatial patterns of soil total nitrogen and soil total phosphorus across the entire Loess Plateau region of China

(2013) Zhi-Peng Liu et al.   GEODERMA

Determining minimum data set for soil quality assessment of typical salt-affected farmland in the coastal reclamation area

(2013) Rongjiang Yao et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Soil management, microorganisms and organic matter interactions: A review

(2012) Khosro Mohammadi   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Effect of land management and Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC trees on soil microbial community and enzymatic activities in intensive silvopastoral systems of Colombia

(2012) Victoria E. Vallejo et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Effects of petroleum contamination on soil microbial numbers, metabolic activity and urease activity

(2012) Huan Guo et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Nematodes as bioindicators of soil degradation due to heavy metals

(2012) Peter Šalamún et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals widespread community responses during phenanthrene degradation in soil

(2012) Alexandre de Menezes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of a bioremediation process of PAHs in a PAH-contaminated soil at field and laboratory scales

(2012) Christine Lors et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Application of metatranscriptomics to soil environments

(2012) Lilia C. Carvalhais et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Abundance of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidizers – Possible bioindicator for soil monitoring

(2011) Ella Wessén et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The Effect of Soil Texture on Richness and Diversity of Bacterial Communities

(2011) Jessica Furrer Chau et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS

Toward the use of testate amoeba functional traits as indicator of floodplain restoration success

(2011) Bertrand Fournier et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Impact of farming practices on soil diatoms and testate amoebae: A pilot study in the DOK-trial at Therwil, Switzerland

(2011) Thierry J. Heger et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

A molecular perspective on ciliates as soil bioindicators

(2011) Enrique Lara et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Soil bulk density pedotransfer functions of the humus horizon in arable soils

(2011) Elsa Suuster et al.   GEODERMA

Soil beneficial bacteria and their role in plant growth promotion: a review

(2010) Rifat Hayat et al.   ANNALS OF MICROBIOLOGY

Effect of texture and tree species on microbial properties of mine soils

(2010) Marcin Chodak et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Evolution of bacterial community during bioremediation of PAHs in a coal tar contaminated soil

(2010) Christine Lors et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Diatoms as bioindicators of site use: locating turf structures from the Viking Age

(2010) Rhonda R. Bathurst et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Characterization of Metaproteomics in Crop Rhizospheric Soil

(2010) Hai-Bin Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Soil texture affects soil microbial and structural recovery during grassland restoration

(2010) Elizabeth M. Bach et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effect of land management and soil texture on seasonal variations in soil microbial biomass in dry tropical agroecosystems in Tanzania

(2009) Soh Sugihara et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Soil Microbial Communities and Restoration Ecology: Facilitators or Followers?

(2009) J. Harris   SCIENCE

Plant biomass, soil water content and soil N:P ratio regulating soil microbial functional diversity in a temperate steppe: A regional scale study

(2009) Zhanfeng Liu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Past, present and future of soil quality indices: A biological perspective

(2008) F. Bastida et al.   GEODERMA

Influence of industrial heavy metal pollution on soil free-living nematode population

(2007) Stanislav Pen-Mouratov et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION