Trends in microbial community composition and function by soil depth

D Naylor, R McClure, J Jansson - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microbial communities play important roles in soil health, contributing to processes such as
the turnover of organic matter and nutrient cycling. As soil edaphic properties such as …

Nitrification and nitrifiers in acidic soils

Y Li, SJ Chapman, GW Nicol, H Yao - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Nitrification, as a crucial step in nitrogen cycling and plant nutrition, is a biologically
mediated process responsible for enormous losses of nitrogen fertilizer and a contributor to …

Microplastics altered soil microbiome and nitrogen cycling: the role of phthalate plasticizer

F Zhu, Y Yan, E Doyle, C Zhu, X **, Z Chen… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics are emerging contaminants that are increasingly detected in soil environment,
but their impact on soil microbiota and related biogeochemical processes remains poorly …

Microbial regulation of terrestrial nitrous oxide formation: understanding the biological pathways for prediction of emission rates

HW Hu, D Chen, JZ He - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The continuous increase of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) in the atmosphere due
to increasing anthropogenic nitrogen input in agriculture has become a global concern. In …

Nitrogen transformations in aquaponic systems: A review

S Wongkiew, Z Hu, K Chandran, JW Lee… - Aquacultural …, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, aquaponic systems have gained significant popularity as soilless agriculture
systems for organic fruits and vegetables production with concomitant remediation of …

Archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidisers in soil: the quest for niche specialisation and differentiation

JI Prosser, GW Nicol - Trends in microbiology, 2012 - cell.com
Autotrophic archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidisers (AOA and AOB) drive soil nitrification.
Ammonia limitation, mixotrophy, and pH have been suggested as factors providing niche …

The consequences of niche and physiological differentiation of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidisers for nitrous oxide emissions

L Hink, C Gubry-Rangin, GW Nicol… - The ISME journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
High and low rates of ammonium supply are believed to favour ammonia-oxidising bacteria
(AOB) and archaea (AOA), respectively. Although their contrasting affinities for ammonium …

Archaea produce lower yields of N2O than bacteria during aerobic ammonia oxidation in soil

L Hink, GW Nicol, JI Prosser - Environmental microbiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen fertilisation of agricultural soil contributes significantly to emissions of the potent
greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O), which is generated during denitrification and, in oxic …

Effects of biochar-based controlled release nitrogen fertilizer on nitrogen-use efficiency of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.)

J Liao, X Liu, A Hu, H Song, X Chen, Z Zhang - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Biochar-based controlled release nitrogen fertilizers (BCRNFs) have received increasing
attention due to their ability to improve nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) and increase crop …

Comammox—a newly discovered nitrification process in the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

HW Hu, JZ He - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2017 - Springer
Purpose Nitrification, the microbial oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, is a pivotal
component of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. Nitrification was conventionally assumed …