Faster recovery of soil biodiversity in native species mixture than in Eucalyptus monoculture after 60 years afforestation in tropical degraded coastal terraces

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Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity

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Tree species richness and water availability interact to affect soil microbial processes

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Focus on the role of forests and soils in meeting climate change mitigation goals: summary

(2020) William Moomaw et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems

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Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics

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Food web rewiring in a changing world

(2019) Timothy J. Bartley et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Microbiome Biodiversity as a Driver of Plant Growth and Soil Health

(2019) Muhammad Saleem et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Effects of grassland afforestation on structure and function of soil bacterial and fungal communities

(2019) Kaibo Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Earthworms Coordinate Soil Biota to Improve Multiple Ecosystem Functions

(2019) Ting Liu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Responses of ground-active arthropods to black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) afforestation in the Loess Plateau of China

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Multifunctional Forestry and Interaction with Site Quality

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Methodological advances to study the diversity of soil protists and their functioning in soil food webs

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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

Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits

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Global patterns of tropical forest fragmentation

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A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

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Integrating quantitative morphological and qualitative molecular methods to analyse soil nematode community responses to plant range expansion

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Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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Tropical forest restoration: Fast resilience of plant biomass contrasts with slow recovery of stable soil C stocks

(2017) Faming Wang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Tree species functional group is a more important driver of soil properties than tree species diversity across major European forest types

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Effects of forest degradation on microbial communities and soil carbon cycling: A global meta-analysis

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Soil protist communities form a dynamic hub in the soil microbiome

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Shifts in rhizosphere fungal community during secondary succession following abandonment from agriculture

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Differential responses of soil bacteria, fungi, archaea and protists to plant species richness and plant functional group identity

(2017) Sigrid Dassen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Tree diversity regulates soil respiration through accelerated tree growth in a mesocosm experiment

(2017) Mengyun Liu et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

(2017) A. Baccini et al.   SCIENCE

Soil networks become more connected and take up more carbon as nature restoration progresses

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

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Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

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Rhizodeposition under drought and consequences for soil communities and ecosystem resilience

(2016) Catherine Preece et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

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

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The relative importance of climate, stand variables and liana abundance for carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) Sandra M. Durán et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

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Predicting the responsiveness of soil biodiversity to deforestation: a cross-biome study

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Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   NATURE

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

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Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality

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Relationships of phosphorus fractions to organic carbon content in surface soils in mature subtropical forests, Dinghushan, China

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Management intensity affects traits of soil microarthropod community in montane spruce forest

(2013) Jitka Farská et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Plantation forests, climate change and biodiversity

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Effect of Prescribed Fire on Soil Properties and N Transformation in Two Vegetation Types in South China

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Incorporation of plant carbon and microbial nitrogen into the rhizosphere food web of beech and ash

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Global biogeography of highly diverse protistan communities in soil

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Who is who in litter decomposition? Metaproteomics reveals major microbial players and their biogeochemical functions

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Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

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Land use alters the resistance and resilience of soil food webs to drought

(2012) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   Nature Climate Change

Soil biochemical activities and the geometric mean of enzyme activities after application of sewage sludge and sewage sludge biochar to soil

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The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of tropical forest vegetation

(2011) Yadvinder Malhi   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity, tree diversity and root nutrient relations in a mixed Central European forest

(2011) C. Lang et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Divergent composition but similar function of soil food webs of individual plants: plant species and community effects

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Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis

(2010) N. Eisenhauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Effect of compost and chemical fertilizer on soil nematode community in a Chinese maize field

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

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Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil

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How understanding aboveground–belowground linkages can assist restoration ecology

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Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

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

(2009) Diane S. Srivastava et al.   ECOLOGY

Global patterns in belowground communities

(2009) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil aggregation and carbon sequestration are tightly correlated with the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: results from long-term field experiments

(2009) Gail W. T. Wilson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Carbon accumulation in agricultural soils after afforestation: a meta-analysis

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Evaluating high-throughput sequencing as a method for metagenomic analysis of nematode diversity

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A Method for Studying Protistan Diversity Using Massively Parallel Sequencing of V9 Hypervariable Regions of Small-Subunit Ribosomal RNA Genes

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Soil Microbial Communities and Restoration Ecology: Facilitators or Followers?

(2009) J. Harris   SCIENCE

The “soil microbial loop” is not always needed to explain protozoan stimulation of plants

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Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nematode community development early in ecological restoration: The role of organic amendments

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From peds to paradoxes: Linkages between soil biota and their influences on ecological processes

(2007) David C. Coleman   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY