Soil microbial biomass plays important roles in nutrient cycling, plant–pathogen
suppression, decomposition of residues and degradation of pollutants; therefore, it is often …

Human population growth in Central America during the last thirty years has lead to
encroachment of forests for food production and resulted in the replacement of forests with …

Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as
tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representative and highly endangered …

Microbial communities in soils are generally considered to be limited by carbon (C), which
could be a crucial control for basic soil functions and responses of microbial heterotrophic …

In forest ecosystems, the effects of litter or understory on soil properties are far from being
fully understood. We conducted a study in a pure Acacia mangium Willd. plantation in …

Livestock production in Latin America has replaced tropical dry forests with conventional
monocultures pastures (CP) that have degraded soils. As an alternative to CP, intensive …

The lack of robust scientific data still hinders estimates of soil and plant carbon (C) losses
due to land-use changes in most dry tropical ecosystems. The present study investigated the …

Land‐use change is one of the most important anthropogenic environmental change drivers
affecting the biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems. However, there is limited …

Labile soil organic matter pools (LSOMs) are the fine indicators of soil quality which are
influenced by changes in management practices. The suitability of forest tree species is …

Extracellular enzymes are the proximate agents of organic matter transformation in soils.
Data on microbial distributions and diversity are accumulating rapidly, and advances in …