Article
Environmental Sciences
Ai-tian Ren, Dan-Ying Hu, Pei-Xia Qi, Shao-Cong Zhang, He-Miao Gao, Bede S. Mickan, You-Cai Xiong, Long-Yi Yuan
Summary: Subalpine peat wetlands are sensitive to environmental changes and disturbances. Soil seed banks (SSB) can help plant communities resist disturbance, but their response to soil moisture varies. SSB composition is less affected by soil moisture changes compared to plant community composition. High SSB diversity and similarity to vegetation provide a buffer against moisture changes. SSB is important for restoring propagule diversity after disturbance if hydrology is restored.
LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Yunga Wu, Cao Hao, Zhijing Xie, Yufeng Zhang, Pingting Guan, Donghui Wu, Stefan Scheu
Summary: Distance-decay of similarity is observed in both environmental and geographic distance for soil and earthworm gut bacteria. The foregut of earthworms is most affected by environmental changes. These findings suggest that the gut passage of earthworms contributes to the similarity of soil microbial communities.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Jan Plue, Hans Van Calster, Inger Auestad, Sofia Basto, Renee M. Bekker, Hans Henrik Bruun, Richard Chevalier, Guillaume Decocq, Ulf Grandin, Martin Hermy, Hans Jacquemyn, Anna Jakobsson, Malgorzata Jankowska-Blaszczuk, Rein Kalamees, Marcus A. Koch, Rob H. Marrs, Bryndis Marteinsdottir, Per Milberg, Inger E. Maren, Robin J. Pakeman, Gareth K. Phoenix, Ken Thompson, Vigdis Vandvik, Markus Wagner, Alistair G. Auffret
Summary: This study investigates the potential role of soil seed banks in different habitats in Europe and finds that high seed bank diversity and compositional similarity with the herb layer may act as a functional buffer against the impact of global environmental changes on plant communities. However, climate warming could threaten this capacity. Dormant life-history stages can be important sources of diversity in changing environments, but their ability to buffer change may only be temporary.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Miao Zhang, Bing-Jie Jin, Qing-Fang Bi, Ke-Jie Li, Cheng-Liang Sun, Xian-Yong Lin, Yong-Guan Zhu
Summary: The study showed that the bacterial communities and functional gene abundance in earthworm guts underwent significant changes during 700 years of upland cultivation, with the microbes in the earthworm guts becoming more sensitive to cultivation age compared to surrounding soils.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Soil Science
Inaki Odriozola, Diana Navratilova, Petra Tlaskalova, Tereza Klinerova, Zita Cervenkova, Petr Kohout, Tomas Vetrovsky, Pavla Cizkova, Martin Stary, Petr Baldrian
Summary: Our study found that fungal biomass and community composition were vertically stratified in the study area. Vegetation was a key predictor of fungal community composition across all ecological guilds of fungi and habitats. Additionally, pH and climatic factors also played significant roles in predicting fungal community composition and biomass.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Soil Science
Xin Gong, Dingyi Wang, Maogang Xu, Yan Du, Xiaoyun Chen, Feng Hu, Manqiang Liu
Summary: Resource limitation hinders soil biota to sustain multiple ecosystem functions. Earthworms are known for their ecotype diversity and the ability to accelerate nutrient cycling. However, the roles of earthworm ecotype diversity in alleviating soil resource limitations have yet to be discovered.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Shakoor Ahmed, Nithyanandam Marimuthu, Basudev Tripathy, Jatinder Mohan Julka, Kailash Chandra
Summary: This study explored the community structure of earthworms in agroecosystems in the state of Himachal Pradesh in the Western Himalayas. The researchers found that the earthworm community varies with cropping intensity and elevation. Traditional cropping systems have greater species richness compared to cereal crop fields that use heavy ploughing machines and chemical fertilizers. The number of earthworm species increases with elevation up to a certain point, but then decreases. Rainfall, soil moisture, organic carbon, and pH are all factors that influence earthworm density. The dominance of exotic earthworm species in all sites, except the mango orchard, raises concerns about their invasion and impact on native species. Further research is needed to compare the impact of land-use changes on earthworm communities in adjacent forests.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Agronomy
M. A. D. A. L. I. N. A. Iordache
Summary: Earthworms dominate the soil biota and their feeding and casting activities have significant impacts on the microbiological and biogeochemical cycles of the soil. The complexity of chemical relationships within earthworm casts highlights their important contribution to soil sustainability.
PLANT SOIL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yi Wen, Nazila Salamat-Miller, Keethkumar Jain, Katherine Taylor
Summary: The direct delivery of therapeutic enzymes to the Central Nervous System requires careful formulation design, and a high concentration saline-based formulation without buffering species has been proven to be stable and effective for enzyme delivery.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Aiwen Li, Chengji Li, Yuanyuan Zhang, Qian Deng, Hongyan Fang, Bin Zhao, Min Ran, Liangying Song, Jingling Xue, Qi Tao, Rong Huang, Yiding Li, Wei Zhou, Jingting Wang, John P. Wilson, Qiquan Li
Summary: This study analyzed the influencing factors of cropland soil acidification using the example of cropland in the Sichuan Basin of China. The results showed that precipitation was the main factor causing soil acidification. Additionally, soil pH decrease was primarily buffered by soil carbonates and secondarily by soil CEC, with soil carbonates becoming the main buffering agent when their content exceeded 36.76 g kg(-1). These findings emphasize the importance of formulating precipitation-based optimizing agronomic management practices to prevent or mitigate cropland soil acidification.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Shuwen Luo, Lei Ren, Weijian Wu, Yijie Chen, Gaoyang Li, Weijian Zhang, Ting Wei, Yan-Qiu Liang, Dayi Zhang, Xinzi Wang, Zhen Zhen, Zhong Lin
Summary: The addition of earthworm cast significantly increased soil properties and atrazine removal efficiency. It also altered soil microbial communities by enriching potential atrazine degraders and introducing microbial degraders from the cast. The study revealed the influence of earthworm cast on atrazine bioremediation, providing new insights into the process.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Soil Science
Shicheng Zhao, Fenliang Fan, Shaojun Qiu, Xinpeng Xu, Ping He, Ignacio A. Ciampitti
Summary: This study reveals the importance of fungal abundance in residue decomposition, with the composition of fungal community shifting from copiotrophic populations dominating in the early stage to oligotrophic populations in the later stage.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
Dan Naylor, Ryan McClure, Janet Jansson
Summary: Microbial communities in soil exhibit variability with depth, impacting soil health and carbon cycling. However, they are often neglected in research studies.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jiayue Yang, Hui Wei, Jiaen Zhang, Zhaoji Shi, Hongru Li, Yanqiong Ye, Ahmed Ibrahim Abdo
Summary: Soil acidification is a global environmental problem, and the pH buffering capacity of soil is greatly affected by land use and soil type. In South China, different soil types and land use patterns result in significant differences in soil pH buffering capacity and physico-chemical properties. Forest soils have higher pH buffering capacity, while agricultural soils are related to cation exchange capacity, soil organic carbon, and exchangeable acid. This indicates that soil pH buffering capacity is influenced by land use and soil type, and involves complex physico-chemical processes and interactions.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Muhammad Tayyab, Ziqi Yang, Caifang Zhang, Waqar Islam, Wenxiong Lin, Hua Zhang
Summary: Sugarcane monoculture leads to soil problems such as acidification and degradation, reducing soil fertility and beneficial microbes. Analysis showed the impact of this cultivation method on soil and microbial communities.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)