Plant biomass and soil nutrients mainly explain the variation of soil microbial communities during secondary succession on the Loess Plateau

M Xu, J Wang, Y Zhu, X Han, C Ren, G Yang - Microbial ecology, 2022 - Springer
Soil microorganisms play an important role in the circulation of materials and nutrients
between plants and soil ecosystems, but the drivers of microbial community composition and …

Effects of land-use intensity, grazing and fire disturbances on soil bacterial and fungal communities in subtropical wetlands

Y Guo, HL Liao, EH Boughton… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacteria and fungi are primary components in wetland soil microbial communities and
provide essential ecosystem functions and services. Understanding responses of bacterial …

Soil microbial distribution depends on different types of landscape vegetation in temperate urban forest ecosystems

Q Fu, Y Shao, S Wang, F Liu, G Tian, Y Chen… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Although soil microbes play an important role in the functioning of the forest ecosystem, our
understanding of the spatial distribution characteristics of soil microbes among different …

Community structure and functional group of root‐associated Fungi of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica across stand ages in the Mu Us Desert

P Zhao, M Guo, G Gao, Y Zhang, G Ding… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Root‐associated fungi (RAF) are an important factor affecting the host's growth, and their
contribution to Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica plantation decline is substantial. Therefore …

Microbiome structure and interconnection in soil aggregates across conservation and conventional agricultural practices allow to identify main prokaryotic and fungal …

E Pellegrino, G Piazza, T Helgason, L Ercoli - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Under conservation agriculture (CA), soil aggregates physically protect soil organic C,
creating microhabitats with heterogeneities in nutrient availability. These may become rich in …

Fungal complexity and stability across afforestation areas in changing desert environments

P Zhao, G Gao, G Ding, Y Zhang, Y Ren - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
The great achievements in combating desertification are attributed to large-scale
afforestation, yet we lack verification of how the stability of the fungal community changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Development of root rot in Zanthoxylum bungeanum is closely linked to changes in soil microbial communities, enzyme activities, and physicochemical factors

X Zhao, X Zhang, Z Li, B Wang, T Zhang… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the emergence of root rot (RR), it can cause harm to the health of Zanthoxylum
bungeanum (Z. bungeanum) plants. However, the reason for this is not clear, and further …

Vegetation restoration alters fungal community composition and functional groups in a desert ecosystem

Y Zhang, H Cao, P Zhao, X Wei, G Ding… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Revegetation is regarded as an effective means to improve the ecological environment in
deserts and profoundly influences the potential ecological functions of the soil fungal …

Epichloë endophyte infection changes the root endosphere microbial community composition of Leymus chinensis under both potted and field growth conditions

J Chen, Y Deng, X Yu, G Wu, Y Gao, A Ren - Microbial ecology, 2023 - Springer
Epichloë endophytes can not only affect the growth and resistance of the host plant but also
change the biotic and abiotic properties of the soil where the host is situated. Here, we used …