The ecology of soil carbon: pools, vulnerabilities, and biotic and abiotic controls

RB Jackson, K Lajtha, SE Crow… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Soil organic matter (SOM) anchors global terrestrial productivity and food and fiber supply.
SOM retains water and soil nutrients and stores more global carbon than do plants and the …

Modeling soil processes: Review, key challenges, and new perspectives

H Vereecken, A Schnepf, JW Hopmans… - Vadose zone …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

MA Tsiafouli, E Thébault, SP Sgardelis… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Soil biodiversity plays a key role in regulating the processes that underpin the delivery of
ecosystem goods and services in terrestrial ecosystems. Agricultural intensification is known …

Microplastics effects on soil biota are dependent on their properties: a meta-analysis

M Liu, J Feng, Y Shen, B Zhu - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) pollution is identified as an important new global change factor
potentially influencing ecosystem functions and services. MPs have been shown to strongly …

Global response of soil biodiversity to climate and land use changes

X Shen, X Bai, C Zhao, Q Tan, G Luo, C Li… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil biodiversity (SB) is experiencing significant changes worldwide, yet its responses to
climate and land use changes remain unclear. In light of this, we combined multiple …

Thermal sensitivity of soil microbial carbon use efficiency across forest biomes

C Ren, Z Zhou, M Delgado-Baquerizo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the large-scale pattern of soil microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) and its
temperature sensitivity (CUET) is critical for understanding soil carbon–climate feedback …

Protist communities are more sensitive to nitrogen fertilization than other microorganisms in diverse agricultural soils

ZB Zhao, JZ He, S Geisen, LL Han, JT Wang, JP Shen… - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background Agricultural food production is at the base of food and fodder, with fertilization
having fundamentally and continuously increased crop yield over the last decades. The …

Where, when and how plant–soil feedback matters in a changing world

WH van der Putten, MA Bradford… - Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
It is increasingly acknowledged that plant–soil feedbacks may play an important role in
driving the composition of plant communities and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems …

Climate change effects on plant-soil feedbacks and consequences for biodiversity and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems

FI Pugnaire, JA Morillo, J Peñuelas, PB Reich… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are interactions among plants, soil organisms, and abiotic soil
conditions that influence plant performance, plant species diversity, and community …

[HTML][HTML] The physical structure of soil: determinant and consequence of trophic interactions

A Erktan, D Or, S Scheu - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Trophic interactions play a vital role in soil functioning and are increasingly considered as
important drivers of the soil microbiome and biogeochemical cycles. In the last decade …