Sulfur is one of the essential nutrients that is required for the adequate growth and
development of plants. Sulfur is a structural component of protein disulfide bonds, amino …

This review article aims to acknowledge the multifaceted functions of soil, and given its
status as the largest terrestrial carbon store, to reaffirm its previously established importance …

Aims This review was developed to introduce the essential components and variants of
structural equation modeling (SEM), synthesize the common issues in SEM applications …

Long-term fertilization is known to impact the biodiversity and community structures of soil
organisms, which are responsible for multiple soil ecosystem functions (multifunctionality) …

Soil bacteria and fungi play key roles in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, yet our
understanding of their responses to climate change lags significantly behind that of other …

Microbial elevational diversity patterns have been extensively studied, but their sha**
mechanisms remain to be explored. Here, we examined soil bacterial and fungal diversity …

Plants are now recognized as metaorganisms which are composed of a host plant
associated with a multitude of microbes that provide the host plant with a variety of essential …

Cultivation-independent surveys have shown that the desert soils of Antarctica harbour
surprisingly rich microbial communities,,. Given that phototroph abundance varies across …

Microorganisms of the soil‐root continuum play key roles in ecosystem function. The Loess
Plateau is well known for its severe soil erosion and thick loess worldwide, where mean …

Feedbacks between plants and soil microbial communities play an important role in
vegetation dynamics, but the underlying mechanisms remain unresolved. Here, we show …