Practical applications of soil microbiota to improve ecosystem restoration: current knowledge and future directions

SD Peddle, RJ Hodgson, RJ Borrett… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soil microbiota are important components of healthy ecosystems. Greater consideration of
soil microbiota in the restoration of biodiverse, functional, and resilient ecosystems is …

Drivers of the global phosphorus cycle over geological time

M Zhao, BJW Mills, SW Poulton, B Wan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Phosphorus is a key limiting nutrient of terrestrial and marine primary production. Thus, the
global phosphorus cycle is intimately linked with the carbon cycle and influences climate …

Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability

S Liu, P García-Palacios, L Tedersoo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil fungi are fundamental to plant productivity, yet their influence on the temporal stability of
global terrestrial ecosystems, and their capacity to buffer plant productivity against extreme …

Soil biodiversity supports the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions in urban greenspaces

K Fan, H Chu, DJ Eldridge, JJ Gaitan, YR Liu… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
While the contribution of biodiversity to supporting multiple ecosystem functions is well
established in natural ecosystems, the relationship of the above-and below-ground diversity …

Global patterns and drivers of soil total phosphorus concentration

X He, L Augusto, DS Goll, B Ringeval… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Soils represent the largest phosphorus (P) reserves on land and determining the amount is
a critical first step for identifying sites where ecosystem functioning is potentially limited by P …

Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes

C Ren, J Wang, F Bastida… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil priming is a microbial‐driven process, which determines key soil–climate feedbacks in
response to fresh carbon inputs. Despite its importance, the microbial traits behind this …

Local temperature increases reduce soil microbial residues and carbon stocks

XM Zeng, J Feng, DL Yu, SH Wen… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Warming is known to reduce soil carbon (C) stocks by promoting microbial respiration, which
is associated with the decomposition of microbial residue carbon (MRC). However, the …

The role of soils in habitat creation, maintenance and restoration

GB De Deyn, L Kooistra - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Soils are the fundament of terrestrial ecosystems. Across the globe we find different soil
types with different properties resulting from the interacting soil forming factors: parent …

Vegetation restoration in the coarse‐textured soil area is more conducive to the accumulation of Fe‐associated C

L Dong, J Li, D Wang, S Wang, W Hu… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetation restoration has an important effect on soil carbon (C) pool dynamics. Highly
stable iron (Fe)‐associated C is an important component of the soil C pool and it plays a …

Biogenic factors explain soil carbon in paired urban and natural ecosystems worldwide

M Delgado-Baquerizo, P García-Palacios… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Urban greenspaces support multiple nature-based services, many of which depend on the
amount of soil carbon (C). Yet, the environmental drivers of soil C and its sensitivity to …