Anthropogenic N deposition increases soil organic matter accumulation without altering its biochemical composition

DR Zak, ZB Freedman, RA Upchurch… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating evidence indicates that future rates of atmospheric N deposition have the
potential to increase soil C storage by reducing the decay of plant litter and soil organic …

Nitrogen addition reduces soil bacterial richness, while phosphorus addition alters community composition in an old-growth N-rich tropical forest in southern China

H Wang, S Liu, X Zhang, Q Mao, X Li, Y You… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Increased nitrogen (N) deposition endangers the biodiversity and stability of forest
ecosystems, and much of the original phosphorus (P) parent material continues to decrease …

Differential responses of total and active soil microbial communities to long-term experimental N deposition

ZB Freedman, KJ Romanowicz, RA Upchurch… - Soil Biology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The relationship between total and metabolically active soil microbial communities can
provide insight into how these communities are impacted by environmental change, which …

Soil bacterial communities are shaped by temporal and environmental filtering: evidence from a long‐term chronosequence

Z Freedman, DR Zak - Environmental microbiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Soil microbial communities are abundant, hyper‐diverse and mediate global
biogeochemical cycles, but we do not yet understand the processes mediating their …

Anthropogenic N deposition alters soil organic matter biochemistry and microbial communities on decaying fine roots

WA Argiroff, DR Zak, RA Upchurch… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fine root litter is a primary source of soil organic matter (SOM), which is a globally important
pool of C that is responsive to climate change. We previously established that~ 20 years of …

Anthropogenic N deposition, fungal gene expression, and an increasing soil carbon sink in the Northern Hemisphere

DR Zak, WA Argiroff, ZB Freedman, RA Upchurch… - Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere are a globally important sink for
anthropogenic CO 2 in the Earth's atmosphere, slowing its accumulation as well as the pace …

Polysaccharide degradation capability of Actinomycetales soil isolates from a semiarid grassland of the Colorado Plateau

CM Yeager, LV Gallegos-Graves… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Among the bacteria, members of the order Actinomycetales are considered quintessential
degraders of complex polysaccharides in soils. However, studies examining complex …

Anthropogenic N deposition increases soil C storage by reducing the relative abundance of lignolytic fungi

EM Entwistle, DR Zak, WA Argiroff - Ecological Monographs, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has increased dramatically since preindustrial times
and continues to increase across many regions of the Earth. In temperate forests, this agent …

Resistance of soil bacterial communities from montane heathland ecosystems in the cantabrian mountains (nw spain) to a gradient of experimental nitrogen …

JM Fernández-Guisuraga, G Ansola, R Pinto… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Elevated atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition on terrestrial ecosystems has become one of
the most important drivers of microbial diversity loss on a global scale, and has been …

Differences in microbial community response to nitrogen fertilization result in unique enzyme shifts between arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal‐dominated soils

JE Carrara, CA Walter, ZB Freedman… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While the effect of nitrogen (N) deposition on belowground carbon (C) cycling varies,
emerging evidence shows that forest soils dominated by trees that associate with …