How soil biota regulate C cycling and soil C pools in diversified crop rotations

Land use as a driver for protist community structure in soils under agricultural use across Europe

(2020) Susana S. Santos et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil aggregation in a no-tillage system with crop rotation

(2020) Mara Regina Moitinho et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Soil functional biodiversity and biological quality under threat: Intensive land use outweighs climate change

(2020) Rui Yin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The Diversification and Intensification of Crop Rotations under No-Till Promote Earthworm Abundance and Biomass

(2020) María Pía Rodríguez et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Litter carbon and nutrient chemistry control the magnitude of soil priming effect

(2019) Lin Chao et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Why farmers should manage the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

(2019) Matthias C. Rillig et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root Exudation of Primary Metabolites: Mechanisms and Their Roles in Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli

(2019) Alberto Canarini et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Culturable endophytic fungal communities associated with plants in organic and conventional farming systems and their effects on plant growth

(2019) Ye Xia et al.   Scientific Reports

Cover crop species affect mycorrhizae-mediated nutrient uptake and pest resistance in maize

(2019) Ebony G. Murrell et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Agricultural intensification reduces microbial network complexity and the abundance of keystone taxa in roots

(2019) Samiran Banerjee et al.   ISME Journal

The cover crop determines the AMF community composition in soil and in roots of maize after a ten-year continuous crop rotation

(2019) C. Hontoria et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Trophic Regulations of the Soil Microbiome

(2019) Madhav P. Thakur et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Increased microbial growth, biomass and turnover drive soil organic carbon accumulation at higher plant diversity

(2019) Judith Prommer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

(2019) Chao Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An evolutionary signal to fungal succession during plant litter decay

(2019) Sasha Vivelo et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry

(2019) T. W. Crowther et al.   SCIENCE

Intensifying rotations increases soil carbon, fungi, and aggregation in semi-arid agroecosystems

(2018) Steven T. Rosenzweig et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Diversifying crop rotation increased metabolic soil diversity and activity of the microbial community

(2018) Luciana D’Acunto et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Contribution of Nitrogen Fixed by Mung Bean to the Following Wheat Crop

(2018) Noshin Ilyas et al.   COMMUNICATIONS IN SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT ANALYSIS

A mycorrhizal revolution

(2018) Grace A Hoysted et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Distinct responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to changes in fertilization regime and crop rotation

(2018) Chao Ai et al.   GEODERMA

Soil structure as an indicator of soil functions: A review

(2018) E. Rabot et al.   GEODERMA

Long-term Trends in Corn Yields and Soil Carbon under Diversified Crop Rotations

(2018) Marek Jarecki et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Key microbial taxa in the rhizosphere of sorghum and sunflower grown in crop rotation

(2018) Tanzelle Oberholster et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Litter chemistry influences earthworm effects on soil carbon loss and microbial carbon acquisition

(2018) Yong Zheng et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Feed Your Friends: Do Plant Exudates Shape the Root Microbiome?

(2018) Joelle Sasse et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Root exudate metabolites drive plant-soil feedbacks on growth and defense by shaping the rhizosphere microbiota

(2018) Lingfei Hu et al.   Nature Communications

Crop rotational diversity increases disease suppressive capacity of soil microbiomes

(2018) Ariane L. Peralta et al.   Ecosphere

Mycobiome of Cysts of the Soybean Cyst Nematode Under Long Term Crop Rotation

(2018) Weiming Hu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly

(2018) Kateryna Zhalnina et al.   Nature Microbiology

Tillage and crop succession effects on soil microbial metabolic activity and carbon utilization in a clay loam soil

(2018) Zhiyong Zhang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Plant host habitat and root exudates shape fungal diversity

(2018) Mylène Hugoni et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Crop rotation and residue management effects on soil enzyme activities, glomalin and aggregate stability under zero tillage in the Indo-Gangetic Plains

(2018) Geeta Singh et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Author Correction: Direct evidence for microbial-derived soil organic matter formation and its ecophysiological controls

(2018) Cynthia M. Kallenbach et al.   Nature Communications

The community and ecosystem consequences of intraspecific diversity: a meta-analysis

(2018) Allan Raffard et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Microbial formation of stable soil carbon is more efficient from belowground than aboveground input

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   Nature Geoscience

How Soil Biota Drive Ecosystem Stability

(2018) Gaowen Yang et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Soil–Plant Indices Help Explain Legume Response to Crop Rotation in a Semiarid Environment

(2018) Junxian Li et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Cover cropping and no-till increase diversity and symbiotroph:saprotroph ratios of soil fungal communities

(2018) Radomir Schmidt et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Temporal dynamics of earthworm-related macroporosity in tilled and non-tilled cropping systems

(2017) C. Pelosi et al.   GEODERMA

Stabilization of soil organic matter by earthworms is connected with physical protection rather than with chemical changes of organic matter

(2017) Šárka Angst et al.   GEODERMA

Carbon input by roots into the soil: Quantification of rhizodeposition from root to ecosystem scale

(2017) Johanna Pausch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A genomic perspective on stoichiometric regulation of soil carbon cycling

(2017) Wyatt H Hartman et al.   ISME Journal

Below-ground connections underlying above-ground food production: a framework for optimising ecological connections in the rhizosphere

(2017) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contribution of glomalin to dissolve organic carbon under different land uses and seasonality in dry tropics

(2017) Ashutosh Kumar Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Earthworm populations are affected from long-term crop sequences and bio-covers under no-tillage

(2017) A.J. Ashworth et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Soil microbial communities in cucumber monoculture and rotation systems and their feedback effects on cucumber seedling growth

(2017) Xingang Zhou et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use

(2017) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Succession of soil microarthropod communities during the aboveground and belowground litter decomposition processes

(2017) Saori Fujii et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nitrogen fertilization decreases the decomposition of soil organic matter and plant residues in planted soils

(2017) Xiao Gang Li et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil Organic Carbon Changes Impacted by Crop Rotational Diversity under No-Till Farming in South Dakota, USA

(2017) Abdullah Alhameid et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Plant Functional Traits: Soil and Ecosystem Services

(2017) Michel-Pierre Faucon et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Carbon translocation from a plant to an insect-pathogenic endophytic fungus

(2017) Scott W. Behie et al.   Nature Communications

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Root biomass and exudates link plant diversity with soil bacterial and fungal biomass

(2017) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   Scientific Reports

The interactive effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria synergistically enhance host plant defences against pathogens

(2017) Alejandro Pérez-de-Luque et al.   Scientific Reports

Tillage effects on soil microbial biomass, SOM mineralization and enzyme activity in a semi-arid Calcixerepts

(2016) Vida Kabiri et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Greater accumulation of soil organic carbon after liquid dairy manure application under cereal-forage rotation than cereal monoculture

(2016) Émilie Maillard et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Cover crops to increase soil microbial diversity and mitigate decline in perennial agriculture. A review

(2016) Eric Vukicevich et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Influence of long-term corn–soybean crop sequences on soil ecology as indicated by the nematode community

(2016) Zane J. Grabau et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Cropping practices impact fungal endophytes and pathogens in durum wheat roots

(2016) Ahmad Esmaeili Taheri et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Priming effect of maize residue and urea N on soil organic matter changes with time

(2016) Qingyan Qiu et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Changes in the composition of native root arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities during a short-term cover crop-maize succession

(2016) Alessandra Turrini et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Dissecting endophytic lifestyle along the parasitism/mutualism continuum in Arabidopsis

(2016) Philipp H Fesel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Profiling and relationship of water-soluble sugar and protein compositions in soybean seeds

(2016) Xiaomin Yu et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

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

(2016) Pankaj Trivedi et al.   ISME Journal

Functional diversity in cover crop polycultures increases multifunctionality of an agricultural system

(2016) Denise M. Finney et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The impact of crop rotation on soil microbial diversity: A meta-analysis

(2016) Zander Samuel Venter et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Interaction of long-term nitrogen fertilizer application, crop rotation, and tillage system on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics

(2016) K. A. Congreves et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

How plants handle multiple stresses: hormonal interactions underlying responses to abiotic stress and insect herbivory

(2016) Duy Nguyen et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Long term effect of conservation agriculture in maize rotations on total organic carbon, physical and biological properties of a sandy loam soil in north-western Indo-Gangetic Plains

(2016) C.M. Parihar et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Fungal endophyte and tall fescue cultivar interact to differentially affect bulk and rhizosphere soil processes governing C and N cycling

(2016) J. Guo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The soil food web revisited: Diverse and widespread mycophagous soil protists

(2016) Stefan Geisen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Understanding the legacy effect of previous forage crop and tillage management on soil biology, after conversion to an arable crop rotation

(2016) F.V. Crotty et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The sapro-rhizosphere: Carbon flow from saprotrophic fungi into fungus-feeding bacteria

(2016) Max-Bernhard Ballhausen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The dynamics of soil micro-food web structure and functions vary according to litter quality

(2016) Marie Sauvadet et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability

(2016) S. Franz Bender et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Root exudate cocktails: the link between plant diversity and soil microorganisms?

(2016) Katja Steinauer et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratios Are Linked to Altered Carbon Cycling

(2016) Ashish A. Malik et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Nematodes enhance plant growth and nutrient uptake under C and N-rich conditions

(2016) Mesfin T. Gebremikael et al.   Scientific Reports

Crop Rotation and Tillage Effects on Soil Physical and Chemical Properties in Illinois

(2015) Stacy M. Zuber et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Crop rotational diversity enhances belowground communities and functions in an agroecosystem

(2015) L. K. Tiemann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

No tillage combined with crop rotation improves soil microbial community composition and metabolic activity

(2015) Bingjie Sun et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Tillage and rotation effects on community composition and metabolic footprints of soil nematodes in a black soil

(2015) Zhi-yong Zhang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Magnitude and farm-economic value of grain legume pre-crop benefits in Europe: A review

(2015) Sara Preissel et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Small but active - pool size does not matter for carbon incorporation in below-ground food webs

(2015) Johanna Pausch et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Do plant- and soil-mediated legacy effects impact future biotic interactions?

(2015) Susanne Wurst et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Plant growth-promoting bacteria as inoculants in agricultural soils

(2015) Rocheli de Souza et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Different plant types for different soil ecosystem services

(2015) Márcio dos Reis Martins et al.   GEODERMA

Integrating plant litter quality, soil organic matter stabilization, and the carbon saturation concept

(2015) Michael J. Castellano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The contentious nature of soil organic matter

(2015) Johannes Lehmann et al.   NATURE

Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss

(2015) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial physiology and necromass regulate agricultural soil carbon accumulation

(2015) C.M. Kallenbach et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Baiting of rhizosphere bacteria with hyphae of common soil fungi reveals a diverse group of potentially mycophagous secondary consumers

(2015) M.B. Rudnick et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant species effects on nutrient cycling: revisiting litter feedbacks

(2015) Sarah E. Hobbie   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Carbon sequestration in soil

(2015) Rattan Lal et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

(2015) Markus Lange et al.   Nature Communications

Cropping systems modulate the rate and magnitude of soil microbial autotrophic CO2 fixation in soil

(2015) Xiaohong Wu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Methods for Baiting and Enriching Fungus-Feeding (Mycophagous) Rhizosphere Bacteria

(2015) Max-Bernhard Ballhausen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi for the Biocontrol of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes: A Review of the Mechanisms Involved

(2015) Nele Schouteden et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Cultivation-Based and Molecular Assessment of Bacterial Diversity in the Rhizosheath of Wheat under Different Crop Rotations

(2015) Muhammad Tahir et al.   PLoS One

Interactive biotic and abiotic regulators of soil carbon cycling: evidence from controlled climate experiments on peatland and boreal soils

(2014) María Jesús I. Briones et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil biota enhance agricultural sustainability by improving crop yield, nutrient uptake and reducing nitrogen leaching losses

(2014) S. Franz Bender et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The role of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle: tracking the below-ground microbial processing of plant-derived carbon for manipulating carbon dynamics in agricultural systems

(2014) Christos Gougoulias et al.   JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Exploring the transfer of recent plant photosynthates to soil microbes: mycorrhizal pathway vs direct root exudation

(2014) Christina Kaiser et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tillage and cover crop species affect soil organic carbon in Andosol, Kanto, Japan

(2014) Tatsuya Higashi et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Crop rotation complexity regulates the decomposition of high and low quality residues

(2014) M.D. McDaniel et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil phosphorus mobilization in the rhizosphere of cover crops has little effect on phosphorus cycling in California agricultural soils

(2014) G. Maltais-Landry et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Crop residue contributions to phosphorus pools in agricultural soils: A review

(2014) Paul M. Damon et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Direct and indirect effects of glomalin, mycorrhizal hyphae and roots on aggregate stability in rhizosphere of trifoliate orange

(2014) Qiang-Sheng Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Soil Fungal Resources in Annual Cropping Systems and Their Potential for Management

(2014) Walid Ellouze et al.   Biomed Research International

Soil metagenomics reveals differences under conventional and no-tillage with crop rotation or succession

(2013) Renata Carolini Souza et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Mycorrhizal activity and diversity in a long-term organic Mediterranean agroecosystem

(2013) Stefano Bedini et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Influence of Soil Management and Crop Rotation on Physical Properties in a Long-Term Experiment in Paraná, Brazil

(2013) A. Calegari et al.   COMMUNICATIONS IN SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT ANALYSIS

Does agricultural crop diversity enhance soil microbial biomass and organic matter dynamics? A meta-analysis

(2013) M. D. McDaniel et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Long-term tillage systems impacts on soil C dynamics, soil resilience and agronomic productivity of a Brazilian Oxisol

(2013) João Carlos de Moraes Sá et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Contributions of soil biota to C sequestration varied with aggregate fractions under different tillage systems

(2013) Shixiu Zhang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil Organic Matter and Physical Attributes Affected by Crop Rotation Under No-till

(2013) Rodrigo Arroyo Garcia et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Earthworms facilitate carbon sequestration through unequal amplification of carbon stabilization compared with mineralization

(2013) Weixin Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Soil profile carbon and nutrient stocks under long-term conventional and organic crop and alfalfa-crop rotations and re-established grassland

(2012) L.W. Bell et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Interactions between an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus and a soil microbial community mediating litter decomposition

(2012) Donald J. Herman et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

(2012) Jennifer A. J. Dungait et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

(2012) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon-use efficiency in soils

(2012) Stefano Manzoni et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Estimation of rhizodeposition at field scale: upscaling of a 14C labeling study

(2012) Johanna Pausch et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Bacterial diversity in the rhizosphere of maize and the surrounding carbonate-rich bulk soil

(2012) Adela García-Salamanca et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Controls over soil microbial biomass responses to carbon amendments in agricultural systems: A meta-analysis

(2011) Cynthia Kallenbach et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Sequestering carbon in soils of agro-ecosystems

(2011) R. Lal   FOOD POLICY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Sources of variation in plant responses to belowground insect herbivory: a meta-analysis

(2011) Elena L. Zvereva et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effect of shallow tillage, moldboard plowing, straw management and compost addition on soil organic matter and nitrogen in a dryland barley/wheat-vetch rotation

(2011) R. Sommer et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity-function relationships

(2010) U. N. Nielsen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

A critical review of the conventional SOC to SOM conversion factor

(2010) Douglas W. Pribyl   GEODERMA

Tillage and soil ecology: Partners for sustainable agriculture

(2010) Jean Roger-Estrade et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Microbial community composition and carbon cycling within soil microenvironments of conventional, low-input, and organic cropping systems

(2010) Angela Y.Y. Kong et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil carbon sequestration and stratification in a cereal/leguminous crop rotation with three tillage systems in semiarid conditions

(2009) J.L. Hernanz et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhiza to soil quality in contrasting cropping systems

(2009) Helena Kahiluoto et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Improved growth and nutrient status of an oat cover crop in sod-based versus conventional peanut-cotton rotations

(2009) Duli Zhao et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition

(2009) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY

Carbon flow in the rhizosphere: carbon trading at the soil–root interface

(2009) D. L. Jones et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Decomposition and mineralization of energy crop residues governed by earthworms

(2009) Gregor Ernst et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Protection of organic carbon in soil microaggregates via restructuring of aggregate porosity and filling of pores with accumulating organic matter

(2008) John F. McCarthy et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Bacterial mycophagy: definition and diagnosis of a unique bacterial–fungal interaction

(2008) Johan H. J. Leveau et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Growth, composition, biological N2 fixation and nutrient uptake of a leguminous cover crop mixture and the effect of their removal on field nitrogen balances and nitrate leaching risk

(2008) Kurt Möller et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Organic carbon sequestration in earthworm burrows

(2008) Axel Don et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY