Article
Environmental Sciences
Ellen Vlaminck, Tom Moens, Ulrike Braeckman, Carl Van Colen
Summary: This study investigates the stimulating effects of ocean acidification and warming on the two key species (Abra alba and Lanice conchilega) and finds that they have different impacts on sediment biogeochemical cycling when environmental conditions change.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Tianle Xu, Xiao Chen, Yanhui Hou, Biao Zhu
Summary: The study found that microbial communities in two alpine ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau showed significant shifts in biomass, community composition, diversity, and potential functioning along the soil profile. Different microbial groups exhibited varied patterns of vertical diversity, which may have important implications for carbon and nutrient cycling in alpine ecosystems along the soil profile.
Article
Microbiology
Xiwen Xiao, Lei Han, Hongri Chen, Jianjun Wang, Yuping Zhang, Ang Hu
Summary: This study found that intercropping with multiple crops significantly increased soil aggregates and ecosystem functions, such as enzyme activities and microbial biomass. In addition, intercropping enhanced the diversity of bacteria and fungi and promoted their ecological communities. These results are important for understanding microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning in intercropping systems and guiding agricultural practices.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Wilian Demetrio, George Brown, Breno Pupin, Reinaldo Novo, Rafaela Dudas, Dilmar Baretta, Jorg Rombke, Marie Bartz, Laura Borma
Summary: Invasive earthworms pose a threat to soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in boreal and temperate forests. However, their impact in tropical forests, such as the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, has been less studied. This research investigates the dominance of exotic earthworm species and their potential consequences on soil ecosystem services and macrofauna communities, highlighting concerns about competition with native soil fauna and implications for climate regulation and water storage.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Yanpei Li, Li Ma, Jiao Wang, Ming'an Shao, Jun Zhang
Summary: Environmental factors and human disturbance can affect the richness and diversity of soil fauna and nutrients in the Loess region of China. Different land use types alter the soil faunal community composition, which in turn plays a significant role in promoting the content of different N forms in the soil environment. Redundancy analysis revealed positive correlations between certain soil faunal groups and specific N forms, highlighting the intricate relationships between soil fauna and nutrient dynamics.
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Tao Liu, Xiaoling Wang, Weixin Zhang, Nico Eisenhauer, Yuanhu Shao, Jie Zhao, Jianxiong Li, Xinxing He, Libin Tao, Shenglei Fu, Xiankai Lu
Summary: Earthworms and their casts play an important role in regulating soil ecosystems, but their impact on other soil biota is still not well understood. This study found that the presence of epi-endogeic earthworms significantly increased the proportion of a specific group of soil nematodes and enhanced the enrichment index of the nematode community. However, cast addition alone had a minor effect on soil nematodes. Soil ammonium and available phosphorous were identified as major influencing factors on soil nematode abundances in the presence of epi-endogeic earthworms. This research contributes to our understanding of soil biodiversity maintenance mechanisms and the relationships between soil biota and their functions in soil food webs.
Article
Soil Science
Apolline Auclerc, Lea Beaumelle, Sandra Barantal, Matthieu Chauvat, Jerome Corte, Tania De Almeida, Anne-Maimiti Dulaurentg, Thierry Dutoit, Sophie Joimel, Geoffroy Sere, Olivier Blight
Summary: Ecological engineering in degraded ecosystems often manipulates plants and soil biota for restoration. However, soil invertebrates have been underused in restoration efforts, despite their important role in soil ecological processes and plant-soil feedback. This review highlights the potential of using soil invertebrate functional traits for ecosystem restoration, focusing on traits related to nutrient and carbon cycling, pollutant detoxification, soil structure arrangement, and biological control. The paper proposes guidelines for integrating soil organism traits into ecological engineering and identifies knowledge gaps and limitations.
Article
Soil Science
Shamik Roy, Jalmesh Karapurkar, Pronoy Baidya, M. Jose, Sumanta Bagchi
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between microbial diversity and functional diversity in soil microbial decomposers, and whether this relationship is influenced by large mammalian herbivores. The results showed a positive correlation between functional diversity and microbial community composition, which challenges the prevailing notion of functional redundancy in hyper-diverse soil microbial communities. The relationship is favored by the availability of soil moisture. Temporal variables, such as seasonality, had a stronger impact on microbial functions than spatial variables. The study also suggests that decomposition in drylands may be particularly affected by the response of microbial species to precipitation variability.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Katharina John, Andrey S. Zaitsev, Andrey G. Zuev, Nonillon M. Aspe, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Volkmar Wolters
Summary: The role of earthworms in the direct transfer of dissolved soil organic carbon to plants is significant but varies in different soil textures, with a significant effect found only in loamy soils. This provides an overlooked option for mitigating carbon loss from crop residue decomposition and associated climate risks.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Yann Hautier, Stefan Geisen
Summary: Biodiversity, both aboveground and belowground, is negatively affected by global changes such as drought or warming. This article highlights the need to understand the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning under the influence of interactive global change drivers. The results from scarce studies studying interactive effects range from antagonistic to additive to synergistic, indicating the importance of quantitatively accounting for the impacts of interactive global change drivers on soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relationships.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Meixiang Gao, Chen Peng, Yaxin Hu, Weixin Liu, Yanyan Ye, Ye Zheng, Ting-Wen Chen
Summary: Extreme high temperature (EHT) events are becoming more frequent and prolonged due to global climate change. This study investigated the response of soil macrofauna communities to an EHT event in East China. The results showed that the taxonomic richness and abundances of the soil macrofauna community were reduced eighteen days after the EHT event. However, earthworms and Enchytraeidae were able to increase their abundances rapidly following the EHT event.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
Article
Zoology
Rafaela T. Dudas, Wilian C. Demetrio, Liliane S. Maia, Jose N. O. Satiro, Karlo A. Silva, Vitoria B. Nicola, Peter Kille, Cintia M. R. Oliveira, Rita O. Afonso, Georgina Russell, Nuno G. C. Ferreira, Luis Cunha, George G. Brown, Marie L. C. Bartz
Summary: The study assessed earthworm communities in long-term no-tillage sites and nearby secondary Atlantic Forest fragments in Parana state, Brazil. It found 11 earthworm species, with 7 being native species and 4 being exotic or cosmopolitan species. The overall earthworm biomass was higher in the forest sites.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Leticia Goncalves Ribeiro, Aline Oliveira Silva, Katia Augusta Vaz, Jesse Valentim dos Santos, Cassio Alencar Nunes, Marco Aurelio Carbone Carneiro
Summary: This study evaluated the impact of iron mining tailings and the restoration process on the arthropod community. The results showed differences in soil arthropod diversity and community composition between the restoration areas and the reference areas. Understory density, soil density, organic matter content, and microbial biomass carbon were identified as important environmental variables influencing arthropod diversity. Evaluating the response of the arthropod community and conducting long-term monitoring are crucial for achieving satisfactory restoration outcomes and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Victor Galindo, Carolina Giraldo, Patrick Lavelle, Inge Armbrecht, Steven J. Fonte
Summary: The study found that forests and tree-based agricultural systems may better contribute to the provision of multiple ecosystem services, including biodiversity conservation and hydrologic regulation.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Simon A. Schroeter, Damien Eveillard, Samuel Chaffron, Johanna Zoppi, Bernd Kampe, Patrick Lohmann, Nico Jehmlich, Martin von Bergen, Carlos Sanchez-Arcos, Georg Pohnert, Martin Taubert, Kirsten Kuesel, Gerd Gleixner
Summary: The study reveals that functions within decomposer communities are redundantly distributed under different types of litter sources, but their relative expressions are rapidly optimized to address specific litter properties. Furthermore, the decomposer community may be influenced by DOM containing natural antibiotics, leading to specialization towards specific litter sources and decomposition states.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Joerg Mueller, Oliver Mitesser, Marc W. Cadotte, Fons van der Plas, Akira S. Mori, Christian Ammer, Anne Chao, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Petr Baldrian, Claus Baessler, Peter Biedermann, Simone Cesarz, Alice Classen, Benjamin M. Delory, Heike Feldhaar, Andreas Fichtner, Torsten Hothorn, Claudia Kuenzer, Marcell K. Peters, Kerstin Pierick, Thomas Schmitt, Bernhard Schuldt, Dominik Seidel, Diana Six, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Simon Thorn, Goddert von Oheimb, Martin Wegmann, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Nico Eisenhauer
Summary: Intensification of land use by humans has led to a homogenization of landscapes and decreasing resilience of ecosystems globally due to a loss of biodiversity, including the majority of forests. Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research has provided compelling evidence for a positive effect of biodiversity on ecosystem functions and services at the local (alpha-diversity) scale, but we largely lack empirical evidence on how the loss of between-patch beta-diversity affects biodiversity and multifunctionality at the landscape scale (gamma-diversity).
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ellen Desie, Juan Zuo, Kris Verheyen, Ika Djukic, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Harald Auge, Nadia Barsoum, Christel Baum, Helge Bruelheide, Nico Eisenhauer, Heike Feldhaar, Olga Ferlian, Dominique Gravel, Herve Jactel, Inger Kappel Schmidt, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Celine Meredieu, Simone Mereu, Christian Messier, Lourdes Morillas, Charles Nock, Alain Paquette, Quentin Ponette, Peter B. Reich, Javier Roales, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Steffen Seitz, Anja Schmidt, Artur Stefanski, Stefan Trogisch, Inge van Halder, Martin Weih, Laura J. Williams, Bo Yang, Bart Muys
Summary: Tree species diversity has a significant impact on litter decomposition in forests. Our study, conducted in 15 tree diversity experiments across three continents, found that tree identity has a significant effect on decomposition, while tree species richness does not. Additionally, litter quality, stand age, and density also influence decomposition.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Iwona Gruss, Rui Yin, Siebert Julia, Nico Eisenhauer, Martin Schaedler
Summary: This study examined the impact of climate change and land use patterns on the biomass patterns of Collembola, focusing on different life forms. The results showed that the response of Collembola biomass to these changes varied among different life forms. Specifically, surface-dwelling Collembola experienced a significant decrease in biomass, while soil-living Collembola were less affected. The reduction in Collembola biomass was mainly due to climate change-induced body size shrinkage and intensive land use-induced density reduction.
SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Beat Frey, Barbara Moser, Bjorn Tytgat, Stephan Zimmermann, Juan Alberti, Lori A. Biederman, Elizabeth T. Borer, Arthur A. D. Broadbent, Maria C. Caldeira, Kendi F. Davies, Nico Eisenhauer, Anu Eskelinen, Philip A. Fay, Frank Hagedorn, Yann Hautier, Andrew S. MacDougall, Rebecca L. McCulley, Joslin L. Moore, Maximilian Nepel, Sally A. Powers, Eric W. Seabloom, Eduardo Vazquez, Risto Virtanen, Laura Yahdjian, Anita C. Risch
Summary: This study collected soil samples from grasslands worldwide and analyzed the impact of nitrogen addition on the soil microbiome. The results showed that nitrogen addition had a significant effect on the community structure of soil diazotrophs, but had minimal impact on their diversity and abundance. In contrast, ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) responded differently to nitrogen addition. Overall, long-term nitrogen addition had a greater impact on AOB communities compared to soil diazotrophs and AOA.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Bastian Heimburger, Andreas Klein, Alexander Roth, Stefan Scheu, Nico Eisenhauer, Ina Schaefer
Summary: Various human activities contribute to the release and spread of invasive earthworm species in North America. Population genetic markers can help identify the anthropogenic vectors and understand population dispersal and establishment processes. The study examined Lumbricus terrestris, an invasive European earthworm species, in Minnesota, USA using genetic markers. The results suggest multiple introductions but not from current bait dumping, and indicate jump-dispersal and ongoing earthworm invasions. Further monitoring using molecular markers is encouraged to develop effective management strategies.
BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
Jose A. Siles, Alfonso Vera, Marta Diaz-Lopez, Carlos Garcia, Johan van den Hoogen, Thomas W. Crowther, Nico Eisenhauer, Carlos Guerra, Arwyn Jones, Alberto Orgiazzi, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Felipe Bastida
Summary: This study aimed to quantify and compare soil bacterial and fungal biomass in 513 European soils under different land uses and climates. It was found that bacterial biomass was highest in grasslands, followed by croplands and forests, with the highest levels observed in temperate climates. On the other hand, fungal biomass was highest in forests and favored by colder environments. This study provides a better understanding of the combined effects of land use and climate on soil bacterial and fungal biomass in Europe.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Joerdis F. Terlau, Ulrich Brose, Nico Eisenhauer, Angelos Amyntas, Thomas Boy, Alexander Dyer, Alban Gebler, Christian Hof, Tao Liu, Christoph Scherber, Ulrike E. Schlaegel, Anja Schmidt, Myriam R. Hirt
Summary: Anthropogenic global warming affects mobile terrestrial insects by changing their activity levels and distribution patterns. Heat extremes induce physiological responses in insects, causing them to either decrease activity or seek out favorable microhabitats. The availability of these microhabitats is affected by anthropogenic land transformation, which reduces habitat heterogeneity. It is important to understand the combined effects of these global change drivers on insect activity.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Markus Lange, Nico Eisenhauer, Hongmei Chen, Gerd Gleixner
Summary: Soils play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning and service provisioning. Plant diversity has positive effects on soil organic matter, but most studies have focused on topsoil and long-term studies are limited. This study investigated the impacts of plant diversity on soil carbon and nitrogen concentrations and stocks, and found that higher plant diversity increased carbon and nitrogen storage, particularly in the topsoil. The effects of plant diversity on soil organic matter became stronger over time and extended to subsoil layers.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ximei Han, Guiyao Zhou, Qin Luo, Olga Ferlian, Lingyan Zhou, Jingjing Meng, Yuan Qi, Jianing Pei, Yanghui He, Ruiqiang Liu, Zhenggang Du, Jilan Long, Xuhui Zhou, Nico Eisenhauer
Summary: The effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations on plant biomass responses is still unclear, particularly in terms of how it affects phosphorus cycling in terrestrial ecosystems.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Pedro Daleo, Juan Alberti, Enrique J. Chaneton, Oscar Iribarne, Pedro M. Tognetti, Jonathan D. Bakker, Elizabeth T. Borer, Martin Bruschetti, Andrew S. MacDougall, Jesus Pascual, Mahesh Sankaran, Eric W. Seabloom, Shaopeng Wang, Sumanta Bagchi, Lars A. Brudvig, Jane A. Catford, Chris R. Dickman, Timothy L. Dickson, Ian Donohue, Nico Eisenhauer, Daniel S. Gruner, Sylvia Haider, Anke Jentsch, Johannes M. H. Knops, Ylva Lekberg, Rebecca L. McCulley, Joslin L. Moore, Brent Mortensen, Timothy Ohlert, Meelis Partel, Pablo L. Peri, Sally A. Power, Anita C. Risch, Camila Rocca, Nicholas G. Smith, Carly Stevens, Riin Tamme, G. F. (Ciska) Veen, Peter A. Wilfahrt, Yann Hautier
Summary: Plant diversity can reduce spatial variability of productivity in grasslands, but high species dissimilarity may increase it. Increasing spatial environmental heterogeneity weakens the effect of plant diversity, and beta diversity can both decrease and increase spatial variability of productivity.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Bala Singavarapu, Jianqing Du, Remy Beugnon, Simone Cesarz, Nico Eisenhauer, Kai Xue, Yanfen Wang, Helge Bruelheide, Tesfaye Wubet
Summary: Loss of multifunctional microbial communities can negatively affect ecosystem services, especially forest soil nutrient cycling. Therefore, exploration of the genomic potential of soil microbial communities, particularly their constituting subcommunities and taxa for nutrient cycling, is vital to get an in-depth mechanistic understanding for better management of forest soil ecosystems.
MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Angelos Amyntas, Emilio Berti, Benoit Gauzens, Georg Albert, Wentao Yu, Alexandra S. Werner, Nico Eisenhauer, Ulrich Brose
Summary: Species-rich communities exhibit higher levels of ecosystem functioning compared with species-poor ones, and this positive relationship strengthens over time. One proposed explanation for this phenomenon is the reduction of niche overlap among plants or animals, which corresponds to increased complementarity and reduced competition. Our findings reveal that increased niche complementarity of plants can steepen the diversity-function relationships, while increasing complementarity among animals during community assembly can also have a positive effect but with considerable variability.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biology
Alexander Dyer, Remo Ryser, Ulrich Brose, Angelos Amyntas, Nora Bodnar, Thomas Boy, Solveig Franziska Bucher, Simone Cesarz, Nico Eisenhauer, Alban Gebler, Jes Hines, Christopher C. M. Kyba, Myles H. M. Menz, Karl Rackwitz, Tom Shatwell, Joerdis F. Terlau, Myriam R. Hirt
Summary: The presence of artificial light at night (ALAN) has significant impacts on natural ecosystems. This study investigates the effects of ALAN on insect movement and predation rates in a grassland ecosystem. The results show that even low-intensity skyglow can cause temporal and spatial shifts in insect movement and predation behavior, with potential consequences for ecological networks and ecosystem functioning.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ines S. Martins, Franziska Schrodt, Shane A. Blowes, Amanda E. Bates, Anne D. Bjorkman, Viviana Brambilla, Juan Carvajal-Quintero, Cher F. Y. Chow, Gergana N. Daskalova, Kyle Edwards, Nico Eisenhauer, Richard Field, Ada Fontrodona-Eslava, Jonathan J. Henn, Roel van Klink, Joshua S. Madin, Anne E. Magurran, Michael McWilliam, Faye Moyes, Brittany Pugh, Alban Sagouis, Isaac Trindade-Santos, Brian J. McGill, Jonathan M. Chase, Maria Dornelas
Summary: Biotic responses to global change, especially in the Anthropocene, have led to a decrease in body size, primarily driven by fish. Both within-species trends and compositional changes contribute to body size changes, with significant variation in magnitude and direction.
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Tessa Elliott, Amibeth Thompson, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Christian Albert, Nico Eisenhauer, Florian Jansen, Andrea Schneider, Martin Sommer, Tanja Straka, Josef Settele, Maria Sporbert, Franziska Tanneberger, Anne-Christine Mupepele
Summary: Most grasslands in Europe are created or altered by human activities like livestock grazing or mowing. Grassland abandonment reduces overall biodiversity, but affects different taxonomic groups differently. Factors such as management type, grassland type, and time after abandonment do not significantly influence grassland biodiversity. Maintaining grassland management is crucial for biodiversity conservation in European grasslands.
CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Soil Science
C. Beraud, F. Piola, J. Gervaix, G. Meiffren, C. Creuze des Chatelliers, A. Delort, C. Boisselet, S. Poussineau, E. Lacroix, A. A. M. Cantarel
Summary: This study investigated the soil factors influencing the development of biological denitrification inhibition (BDI) and found that initial soil moisture, ammonium concentration, and the initial abundance of certain microbial genes play significant roles in BDI development. Additionally, the research highlighted the relevance of biotic factors in explaining BDI and proposed the use of procyanidin concentration from plant belowground system as a new proxy for measuring BDI intensity.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Yizhu Qiao, Tingting Wang, Qiwei Huang, Hanyue Guo, He Zhang, Qicheng Xu, Qirong Shen, Ning Ling
Summary: Soil microbial community coalescence, the mixing and interaction of microbial communities, has been found to enhance the stability and complexity of rhizobacterial networks, leading to improved plant health and biomass. This study investigated the effects of different degrees of bacterial community coalescence on plant disease resistance by mixing soils from healthy and diseased habitats for watermelon planting. The results showed that mixing in more healthy soil reduced the plant disease index and increased biomass by improving the stability and complexity of the rhizobacterial network. Core taxa Nitrospirillum and Singulisphaera were enriched in the rhizosphere from healthy soils and played important roles in disease suppression and regulating the positive cohesion and modularity of the networks. Overall, these findings provide insights into the potential mechanism of microbial community coalescence for improving plant microbial community function and suggest new tools for enhancing plant fitness via soil microbiota mixing.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Mengqiu He, Shending Chen, Lei Meng, Xiaoqian Dan, Wenjie Wang, Qinying Zhu, Zucong Cai, Jinbo Zhang, Pierfrancesco Nardi, Christoph Mueller
Summary: Maize genotypes directly affect gene expression and nitrogen uptake capacity. The feedback between maize genotypes and soil nitrogen transformations, as well as their regulations on nitrogen uptake capacity, have been studied. The findings suggest that maize genotypes play a central role in regulating these feedbacks, which are important for maize breeding and enhancing maize production.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Ke Shi, Jiahui Liao, Xiaoming Zou, Han Y. H. Chen, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Zhengming Yan, Tingting Ren, Honghua Ruan
Summary: Through rewilding, microbial extracellular and cellular residues can continuously accumulate in soils and significantly contribute to soil organic carbon sequestration. Extracellular residues are mainly driven by fine root biomass, while cellular residues are mainly driven by soil nitrogen and organic carbon content.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Sensen Chen, Ying Teng, Yongming Luo, Eiko Kuramae, Wenjie Ren
Summary: This study comprehensively assesses the effects of NMs on the soil microbiome through a global meta-analysis. The results reveal significant negative impacts of NMs on soil microbial diversity, biomass, activity, and function. Metal NMs, especially Ag NMs, have the most pronounced negative effects on various soil microbial community metrics.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Shareen K. D. Sanders, Gerard Martinez-De Leon, Ludovico Formenti, Madhav P. Thakur
Summary: Collembolans, the diverse group of soil invertebrates, are affected by anthropogenic climate warming, which alters their diversity and density. In addition to abiotic stressors, changes in food availability, specifically the abundance of saprotrophic and mycorrhizal fungi, influence Collembola responses to climate warming. Collembolans prefer saprotrophic fungi but rely on mycorrhizal fungi when food sources are scarce. Understanding the mechanisms behind these dietary shifts in warm-dry and warm-wet soil conditions is crucial for predicting the impact of climate change on Collembola-fungal interactions.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Wimonsiri Pingthaisong, Sergey Blagodatsky, Patma Vityakon, Georg Cadisch
Summary: A study found that mixing high-C/N ratio rice straw with low-C/N ratio groundnut stover can improve the chemical composition of the input, stimulate microbial growth, decrease the loss of residue-derived carbon in the soil, and reduce native soil carbon and nitrogen consumption.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
Article
Soil Science
Jiachen Wang, Jie Zhao, Rong Yang, Xin Liu, Xuyuan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyong Chen, Wende Yan, Kelin Wang
Summary: Nitrogen is vital for ecosystem productivity, restoration, and succession processes. This study found that legume intercropping was more effective than chemical nitrogen fertilizers in promoting the complexity and stability of the soil micro-food web, as it increased microbial and nematode communities and enhanced energy flow patterns.
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
(2024)
