The decline in soil quality is becoming a significant process of soil degradation. Optimizing
organic fertilizer incorporation practices in cropland is essential to enhancing crop …

Tropical forests are highly diverse systems involving extraordinary numbers of interactions
between species, with each species responding in a different way to the abiotic …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

Optimizing the use of available soil management practices in oil palm plantations is crucial
to enhance long-term soil fertility and productivity. However, this needs a thorough …

The crucial role of tropical forests in the global carbon balance is underpinned by their
extraordinarily high biomass and productivity, even though the majority of tropical forests …

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is an important tropical crop which provides one-fifth of the
world's vegetable oil, yet its rapid expansion can negatively influence the soil ecosystem …

Tropical forest productivity represents an important global carbon sink, but many tropical
forests grow on infertile soils. Efficient nutrient cycling by litterfall has long been assumed to …

Litter decomposition is a major component of the nutrient cycle in forest ecosystems. It is
generally accepted that higher initial quality and litter mixture contribute to increased mass …

Soil and litter arthropods represent a large proportion of tropical biodiversity and perform
important ecosystem functions, but little is known about the efficacy of different tropical forest …

Decomposition of organic matter is an essential process regulating fluxes of energy and
matter within ecosystems. Although soil microbes drive decomposition, this is often …