Mineral phosphorus (P) fertilizers support high crop yields and contribute to feeding the
teeming global population. However, complex edaphic processes cause P to be …

Soils under natural, tropical forests provide essential ecosystem services that have been
shaped by long-term soil–vegetation feedbacks. However, deforestation of tropical forest …

Global atmospheric nitrogen deposition significantly affects the nutrient cycling and C–N–P
stoichiometry in ecosystems. Herein, a global meta-analysis was conducted based on 898 …

Soil fungi and bacteria are the key players in the transformation and processing of carbon
and nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems, yet controls on their abundance and activity are not …

The size of the terrestrial sink remains uncertain. This uncertainty presents a challenge for
projecting future climate–carbon cycle feedbacks,,,. Terrestrial carbon storage is dependent …

Phosphorus availability is widely assumed to limit primary productivity in tropical forests,, but
support for this paradigm is equivocal. Although biogeochemical theory predicts that …

The primary goal of this study was to devise a quantitative method of interpreting the
simultaneous microbial C, N, and P acquisition through the activities of four, key extracellular …

Soil microorganisms play important roles in nitrogen cycling within forest ecosystems.
Current research has revealed that a wider variety of microorganisms, with unexpected …

Tropical forest vegetation is shaped by climate and by soil, but understanding how the
distributions of individual tree species respond to specific resources has been hindered by …

Chemical weathering is an integral part of both the rock and carbon cycles and is being
affected by changes in land use, particularly as a result of agricultural practices such as …