Polyester microfiber and natural organic matter impact microbial communities, carbon-degraded enzymes, and carbon accumulation in a clayey soil

Organic mulching positively regulates the soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions in tea plantation

(2020) Shuning Zhang et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Effect of Polyvinyl Chloride Microplastics on Bacterial Community and Nutrient Status in Two Agricultural Soils

(2020) Yuanyuan Yan et al.   BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

Are we underestimating the sources of microplastic pollution in terrestrial environment?

(2020) Chenye Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Microplastics in municipal mixed-waste organic outputs induce minimal short to long-term toxicity in key terrestrial biota

(2019) Jonathan D. Judy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

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(2019) Anderson Abel de Souza Machado et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Effects of polyester microfibers on soil physical properties: Perception from a field and a pot experiment

(2019) G.S. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Polyester-derived microfibre impacts on the soil-dwelling earthworm Lumbricus terrestris

(2019) Miranda T. Prendergast-Miller et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Effects of Microplastics in Soil Ecosystems: Above and Below Ground

(2019) Bas Boots et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

LDPE microplastic films alter microbial community composition and enzymatic activities in soil

(2019) Yi Huang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microplastics from mulching film is a distinct habitat for bacteria in farmland soil

(2019) Mengjun Zhang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Response of soil enzyme activities and bacterial communities to the accumulation of microplastics in an acid cropped soil

(2019) Yufan Fei et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Variations in aggregate-associated organic carbon and polyester microfibers resulting from polyester microfibers addition in a clayey soil

(2019) G.S. Zhang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

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(2018) Matthias C. Rillig   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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(2018) Anderson Abel de Souza Machado et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microplastics: New substrates for heterotrophic activity contribute to altering organic matter cycles in aquatic ecosystems

(2018) Maria Arias-Andres et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Biodegradable Plastic Mulch Films: Impacts on Soil Microbial Communities and Ecosystem Functions

(2018) Sreejata Bandopadhyay et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Impacts of Microplastics on the Soil Biophysical Environment

(2018) Anderson Abel de Souza Machado et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Distinct community structure and microbial functions of biofilms colonizing microplastics

(2018) Lingzhan Miao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Longitudinal patterns of microplastic concentration and bacterial assemblages in surface and benthic habitats of an urban river

(2017) Timothy J. Hoellein et al.   Freshwater Science

Longitudinal patterns of microplastic concentration and bacterial assemblages in surface and benthic habitats of an urban river

(2017) Timothy J. Hoellein et al.   Freshwater Science

Microplastics in the Terrestrial Ecosystem: Implications for Lumbricus terrestris (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae)

(2016) Esperanza Huerta Lwanga et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Are Agricultural Soils Dumps for Microplastics of Urban Origin?

(2016) Luca Nizzetto et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microbial regulation of the soil carbon cycle: evidence from gene–enzyme relationships

(2016) Pankaj Trivedi et al.   ISME Journal

Thirty four years of nitrogen fertilization decreases fungal diversity and alters fungal community composition in black soil in northeast China

(2016) Jing Zhou et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment: sources (with a specific focus on personal care products), fate and effects

(2016) Karen Duis et al.   Environmental Sciences Europe

Bacterial Community Profiling of Plastic Litter in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

(2015) Caroline A. De Tender et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Rapid bacterial colonization of low-density polyethylene microplastics in coastal sediment microcosms

(2014) Jesse P Harrison et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Microplastic is an Abundant and Distinct Microbial Habitat in an Urban River

(2014) Amanda McCormick et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Life in the “Plastisphere”: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine Debris

(2013) Erik R. Zettler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Soil enzymes in a changing environment: Current knowledge and future directions

(2012) Richard G. Burns et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies

(2011) T. Magoc et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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Plot-scale manipulations of organic matter inputs to soils correlate with shifts in microbial community composition in a lowland tropical rain forest

(2010) Diana R. Nemergut et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Three Genomes from the Phylum Acidobacteria Provide Insight into the Lifestyles of These Microorganisms in Soils

(2009) N. L. Ward et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mucilaginibacter rigui sp. nov., isolated from wetland freshwater, and emended description of the genus Mucilaginibacter

(2009) K. S. Baik et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY