Microbial interactions for nutrient acquisition in soil: miners, scavengers, and carriers

T Cao, Y Luo, M Shi, X Tian, Y Kuzyakov - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Microbial interactions in soil are hidden, as they occur stealthily in a 'dark box'. This greatly
limits our understanding of microbial functions. Here, soil microorganisms were classified …

Role of fungi in bioremediation of emerging pollutants

A Vaksmaa, S Guerrero-Cruz, P Ghosh… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Advancements in chemical, medical, cosmetic, and plastic producing industries have
improved agricultural yields, health and human life in general. As a negative consequence …

Organic farming enhances soil microbial abundance and activity—A meta-analysis and meta-regression

M Lori, S Symnaczik, P Mäder, G De Deyn, A Gattinger - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Population growth and climate change challenge our food and farming systems and provide
arguments for an increased intensification of agriculture. A promising option is eco …

Soil biodiversity and human health

DH Wall, UN Nielsen, J Six - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Soil biodiversity is increasingly recognized as providing benefits to human health because it
can suppress disease-causing soil organisms and provide clean air, water and food. Poor …

Long term tillage, cover crop, and fertilization effects on microbial community structure, activity: Implications for soil quality

LW Mbuthia, V Acosta-Martínez, J DeBruyn… - Soil Biology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture practices, such as reduced tillage, cover crops and fertilization, are
often associated with greater microbial biomass and activity that are linked to improvements …

Linking bacterial life strategies with soil organic matter accrual by karst vegetation restoration

P Hu, W Zhang, Y Kuzyakov, L **ao, D **ao… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation restoration affects belowground microbial diversity and trait-based life strategies,
as well as soil organic matter (SOM) accumulation. Despite the growing focus on microbial …

Microbial physiology and necromass regulate agricultural soil carbon accumulation

CM Kallenbach, AS Grandy, SD Frey… - Soil Biology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Strategies for mitigating soil organic carbon (SOC) losses in intensively managed
agricultural systems typically draw from traditional concepts of soil organic matter formation …

Considering fungal: bacterial dominance in soils–methods, controls, and ecosystem implications

MS Strickland, J Rousk - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2010 - Elsevier
An expectation in soil ecology is that a microbial communities' fungal: bacterial dominance
indicates both its response to environmental change and its impact on ecosystem function …

[HTML][HTML] Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?

EJBN Cardoso, RLF Vasconcellos, D Bini… - Scientia …, 2013 - SciELO Brasil
Soil Health refers to the ecological equilibrium and the functionality of a soil and its capacity
to maintain a well balanced ecosystem with high biodiversity above and below surface, and …

Bacterial and fungal contributions to carbon sequestration in agroecosystems

J Six, SD Frey, RK Thiet… - Soil Science Society of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the current knowledge of microbial processes affecting C sequestration
in agroecosystems. The microbial contribution to soil C storage is directly related to …