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A decade of irrigation transforms the soil microbiome of a semi-arid pine forest

scientific article

A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide.

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

scientific article published in January 2018

A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

article

A plant perspective on nitrogen cycling in the rhizosphere

scientific article published on 09 February 2019

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

scientific article

A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

A temporal approach to linking aboveground and belowground ecology

scientific article

Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

scientific article

Acquisition and assimilation of nitrogen as peptide-bound and D-enantiomers of amino acids by wheat

scientific article

Additional carbon sequestration benefits of grassland diversity restoration

article

Advancing the Understanding of Adaptive Capacity of Social‐Ecological Systems to Absorb Climate Extremes

Among- and within-species variation in plant litter decomposition in contrasting long-term chronosequences

article

Angiosperm symbioses with non-mycorrhizal fungal partners enhance N acquisition from ancient organic matter in a warming maritime Antarctic

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Are plant-soil feedback responses explained by plant traits?

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Are researchers following best storage practices for measuring soil biochemical properties?

scientific article

Aridity-driven shift in biodiversity-soil multifunctionality relationships

scientific article published on 09 September 2021

Assessing the Importance of Intraspecific Variability in Dung Beetle Functional Traits

scientific article

Author Correction: Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

scientific article

Biochar in bioenergy cropping systems: impacts on soil faunal communities and linked ecosystem processes

Biodiversity and environmental context predict dung beetle-mediated seed dispersal in a tropical forest field experiment

scientific article published in 2015

Biogeochemical plant–soil microbe feedback in response to climate warming in peatlands

article

Biological approaches to global environment change mitigation and remediation

scientific article

Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Causes and consequences of biological diversity in soil

scientific article published on January 2002

Challenging the paradigm of nitrogen cycling: no evidence of in situ resource partitioning by coexisting plant species in grasslands of contrasting fertility

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Changes in soil fungal:bacterial biomass ratios following reductions in the intensity of management of an upland grassland

scientific article published on 07 November 2004

Climate change alters temporal dynamics of alpine soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical cycling via earlier snowmelt

scientific article published on 22 February 2021

Climate change effects on plant-soil feedbacks and consequences for biodiversity and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Climatic resources mediate the shape and strength of grassland productivity-richness relationships from local to regional scales

scientific article published in 2022

Combatting global grassland degradation

Contrasting growth responses of dominant peatland plants to warming and vegetation composition.

scientific article published on 18 February 2015

Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Decoupling the direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on ecosystem function

article

Defoliation modifies the response of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to drought in temperate grassland

scientific article published in 2024

Differences in yield, Ellenberg N value, tissue chemistry and soil chemistry 15 years after the cessation of nitrogen addition

article

Differential effects of legume species on the recovery of soil microbial communities, and carbon and nitrogen contents, in abandoned fields of the Loess Plateau, China

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on litter decomposition

article published in 2008

Direct uptake of soil nitrogen by mosses

scientific article published on June 2006

Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

scientific article

Disentangling plant and soil microbial controls on carbon and nitrogen loss in grassland mesocosms

article

Diversity and distribution of Victoria Land biota

article by Byron J. Adams et al published October 2006 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Diversity meets decomposition

scientific article

Do soil depth and plant community composition interact to modify the resistance and resilience of grassland ecosystem functioning to drought?

scientific article published in 2021

Drivers of inter-year variability of plant production and decomposers across contrasting island ecosystems

scientific article

Drought decreases incorporation of recent plant photosynthate into soil food webs regardless of their trophic complexity

scientific article published on 10 August 2019

Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities

scientific article published on 6 June 2023

Drought neutralises plant-soil feedback of two mesic grassland forbs

scientific article

Drought reduces floral resources for pollinators.

scientific article published on 13 April 2018

Drought soil legacy overrides maternal effects on plant growth

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Drying and rewetting effects on soil microbial community composition and nutrient leaching

scientific article published in 2008

Ecological linkages between aboveground and belowground biota

scientific article

Ecosystem productivity has a stronger influence than soil age on surface soil carbon storage across global biomes

scholarly article

Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences

scientific article published on 17 June 2004

Editorial

Effect of density and species richness of soil mesofauna on nutrient mineralisation and plant growth

Effects of maternal genotypic identity and genetic diversity of the red mangrove <i>Rhizophora mangle</i> on associated soil bacterial communities: A field-based experiment

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Effects of species evenness and dominant species identity on multiple ecosystem functions in model grassland communities

scientific article published on 9 November 2013

Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

scientific article

Environmental myopia: a diagnosis and a remedy

scientific article

Erratum: Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits

scientific article published in Nature

Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Exploitation of immunofluorescence for the quantification and characterization of small numbers of Pasteuria endospores

scientific article published in December 2006

Extensive management promotes plant and microbial nitrogen retention in temperate grassland

scientific article

Fire Accelerates Assimilation and Transfer of Photosynthetic Carbon from Plants to Soil Microbes in a Northern Peatland

scientific article published in 2012

Food Web Uncertainties Influence Predictions of Climate Change Effects on Soil Carbon Sequestration in Heathlands

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Forest fire induces short-term shifts in soil food webs with consequences for carbon cycling

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology

scientific article published on 12 January 2022

Functional aspects of soil animal diversity in agricultural grasslands

scientific article published in 1998

Fungal diversity regulates plant-soil feedbacks in temperate grassland

article

Glacier forelands reveal fundamental plant and microbial controls on short‐term ecosystem nitrogen retention

scientific article

Global-scale patterns of assemblage structure of soil nematodes in relation to climate and ecosystem properties

scientific article published in 2014

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

scientific article

Grassland biodiversity restoration increases resistance of carbon fluxes to drought

scientific article published on 19 April 2019

Grassland invasibility varies with drought effects on soil functioning

scientific article published in 2016

Grazing exclusion affects soil and plant communities, but has no impact on soil carbon storage in an upland grassland

article

Grazing increases the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition in a temperate grassland

Grazing-induced effects on soil properties modify plant competitive interactions in semi-natural mountain grasslands

scientific article published on 6 March 2012

HERBIVORE-MEDIATED LINKAGES BETWEEN ABOVEGROUND AND BELOWGROUND COMMUNITIES

scientific article published in 2003

Heterotrophic microbial communities use ancient carbon following glacial retreat

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2007)

Hierarchical responses of plant-soil interactions to climate change: consequences for the global carbon cycle

article

High ecosystem multifunctionality under moderate grazing is associated with high plant but low bacterial diversity in a semi-arid steppe grassland

scientific article published in 2020

High throughput method for measuring urease activity in soil

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Historical context modifies plant diversity–community productivity relationships in alpine grassland

scientific article published in 2022

How browsing by red deer impacts on litter decomposition in a native regenerating woodland in the Highlands of Scotland

scientific article

Human-induced changes in large herbivorous mammal density: the consequences for decomposers

scientific article published in 2004

Increased plant carbon translocation linked to overyielding in grassland species mixtures

scientific article

Influence of plant traits, soil microbial properties, and abiotic parameters on nitrogen turnover of grassland ecosystems

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Influence of plants on the chemical extractability and biodegradability of 2,4-dichlorophenol in soil

scientific article

Influence of soil microbiota in nurse plant systems

article

Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models

article

Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

scientific article published on 17 November 2014

Inter-Specific Competition, but Not Different Soil Microbial Communities, Affects N Chemical Forms Uptake by Competing Graminoids of Upland Grasslands ⬇️

scientific article published on December 7, 2012

Interactions between nematodes and their microbial enemies in coastal sand dunes ⬇️

scientific article published on May 24, 2012

Isolating the effects of precipitation, soil conditions, and litter quality on leaf litter decomposition in lowland tropical forests

It is elemental: soil nutrient stoichiometry drives bacterial diversity

scientific article

Journal of Ecology News

scientific article published in 2007

Journal of Ecology News

Journal of EcologyNews

scientific article published in 2015

Journal of EcologyNews

scientific article published in 2013

Journal of EcologyNews

scientific article published in 2009

Journal of EcologyNews: Data Archiving Compliance

scientific article published in 2015

Land management shapes drought responses of dominant soil microbial taxa across grasslands

scientific article published in 2024

Land use alters the resistance and resilience of soil food webs to drought

Large old trees influence patterns of delta13C and delta15N in forests

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function

scientific article published in 2023

Legacy effects of drought on plant growth and the soil food web.

scientific article

Legacy effects of drought on plant-soil feedbacks and plant-plant interactions

scientific article

Legacy effects of grassland management on soil carbon to depth

scientific article

Linkages between plant litter diversity, soil microbial biomass and ecosystem function in temperate grasslands

scientific article published in 1999

Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland

article

Linking above-ground and below-ground interactions: how plant responses to foliar herbivory influence soil organisms

article

Linking soil microbial communities to vascular plant abundance along a climate gradient

scientific article

Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long-term natural experiment

scholarly article by David A. Wardle et al published 13 December 2011 in Journal of Ecology

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Litter evenness influences short-term peatland decomposition processes

scientific article

Local stability properties of complex, species‐rich soil food webs with functional block structure

scientific article published in 2021

Long-Term Consequences of Grazing and Burning on Northern Peatland Carbon Dynamics

scientific article published on 06 August 2007

Long-term aboveground and belowground consequences of red wood ant exclusion in boreal forest

scientific article published in March 2011

Low amounts of root herbivory positively influence the rhizosphere microbial community in a temperate grassland soil

scientific article published in 1998

Management versus site effects on the abundance of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in European mountain grasslands

scientific article published on 04 August 2018

Microbes Follow Humboldt: Temperature Drives Plant and Soil Microbial Diversity Patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

scientific article published in 2019

Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

article published in 2018

Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

scientific article published in 2018

Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

Microbial carbon mineralization in tropical lowland and montane forest soils of Peru

scientific article

Microbial community composition explains soil respiration responses to changing carbon inputs along an Andes-to-Amazon elevation gradient

scientific article

Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks

scientific article

Microbial responses to warming enhance soil carbon loss following translocation across a tropical forest elevation gradient

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Microorganisms and climate change: terrestrial feedbacks and mitigation options

scientific article

Molecular profiling of soil animal diversity in natural ecosystems: Incongruence of molecular and morphological results

scientific article published in 2009

Molecular study of worldwide distribution and diversity of soil animals

scientific article

Natural abundance radiocarbon in soil microbial biomass: Results from a glacial foreland

Oligopeptides Represent a Preferred Source of Organic N Uptake: A Global Phenomenon?

scientific article published on 05 October 2012

PLANT REMOVALS IN PERENNIAL GRASSLAND: VEGETATION DYNAMICS, DECOMPOSERS, SOIL BIODIVERSITY, AND ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES

article

Parasitic plants indirectly regulate below-ground properties in grassland ecosystems

scientific article

Pathogens in livestock waste, their potential for movement through soil and environmental pollution

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

Plant attributes explain the distribution of soil microbial communities in two contrasting regions of the globe

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Plant community controls on short-term ecosystem nitrogen retention

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Plant diversity and root traits benefit physical properties key to soil function in grasslands

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

Plant ecological solutions to global food security

article

Plant functional group identity influences short-term peatland ecosystem carbon flux: evidence from a plant removal experiment

scientific article published in 2009

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

scientific article published on 13 February 2008

Plant nitrogen-use strategy as a driver of rhizosphere archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidiser abundance

scientific article published on 28 April 2016

Plant responses to soil heterogeneity and global environmental change

scientific article

Plant species richness, identity and productivity differentially influence key groups of microbes in grassland soils of contrasting fertility

scientific article published on 4 August 2010

Plant, soil and microbial controls on grassland diversity restoration: a long-term, multi-site mesocosm experiment

scientific article published on 09 January 2017

Plant-soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

article

Plant-soil interactions and the carbon cycle

article

Plant-soil interactions in a changing world ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Plant–microbial linkages and ecosystem nitrogen retention: lessons for sustainable agriculture

article

Plastic and genetic responses of a common sedge to warming have contrasting effects on carbon cycle processes

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits.

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Preferences for different nitrogen forms by coexisting plant species and soil microbes

scientific article published in April 2007

Preferential uptake of soil nitrogen forms by grassland plant species

scientific article published on 10 November 2004

Rapid peptide metabolism: A major component of soil nitrogen cycling?

scientific article published in 2011

Reduced microbial stability in the active layer is associated with carbon loss under alpine permafrost degradation

scientific article published on 15 June 2021

Relationships between enchytraeid worms (Oligochaeta), climate change, and the release of dissolved organic carbon from blanket peat in northern England

scientific article published in 2002

Relationships between functional traits and inorganic nitrogen acquisition among eight contrasting European grass species

scientific article published on 2 December 2014

Relationships between plant traits, soil properties and carbon fluxes differ between monocultures and mixed communities in temperate grassland

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

article

Reply to Byrnes et al.: Aggregation can obscure understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces sequestration of root-derived soil carbon

scientific article published in September 2005

Role of nitrogen in carbon mitigation in forest ecosystems

Root architecture governs plasticity in response to drought

scientific article published on 25 October 2018

Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs

scientific article published on 07 November 2020

Root traits explain rhizosphere fungal community composition among temperate grassland plant species

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Shifts in microbial diversity through land use intensity as drivers of carbon mineralization in soil

scholarly article by Vincent Tardy et al published November 2015 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Shrub expansion modulates belowground impacts of changing snow conditions in alpine grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Simple measures of climate, soil properties and plant traits predict national-scale grassland soil carbon stocks

article

Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

Soil Methane Sink Capacity Response to a Long-Term Wildfire Chronosequence in Northern Sweden.

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Soil biodiversity needs policy without borders

scientific article published on 6 January 2023

Soil biota, carbon cycling and crop plant biomass responses to biochar in a temperate mesocosm experiment

scientific article published in 2019

Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

scientific article

Soil invertebrates disrupt carbon flow through fungal networks

scientific article

Soil microbial community patterns related to the history and intensity of grazing in sub-montane ecosystems

scientific article published on 25 July 2002

Soil microbial community responses to climate extremes: resistance, resilience and transitions to alternative states

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Soil multifunctionality and drought resistance are determined by plant structural traits in restoring grassland

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Soil nematode assemblage responds weakly to grazer exclusion on a nutrient-rich seabird island

Soil organic carbon dynamics matching ecological equilibrium theory

scientific article published on 18 October 2018

Stability of above-ground and below-ground processes to extreme drought in model grassland ecosystems: Interactions with plant species diversity and soil nitrogen availability

scientific article published in 2012

Stakeholder perceptions of grassland ecosystem services in relation to knowledge on soil fertility and biodiversity

scientific article published in 2011

Stoichiometric traits (N:P) of understory plants contribute to reductions in plant diversity following long‐term nitrogen addition in subtropical forest

scientific article published on 10 March 2021

Subordinate plant species impact on soil microbial communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: Findings from a removal experiment

article

Temperature sensitivity of soil enzymes along an elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes

Temporal variability in plant and soil nitrogen pools in a high-Arctic ecosystem

article

Terrestrial ecosystem responses to species gains and losses

scientific article

The abundance, richness and functional role of soil meso- and macrofauna in temperate grassland—A case study

scientific article published in 2006

The added value of including key microbial traits to determine nitrogen-related ecosystem services in managed grasslands

scholarly article by Thomas Pommier et al published 13 November 2017 in Journal of Applied Ecology

The biogeography of relative abundance of soil fungi versus bacteria in surface topsoil

scientific article published in 2022

The impact of agricultural soil erosion on biogeochemical cycling

scientific article published in 2010

The impact of synthetic pyrethroid and organophosphate sheep dip formulations on microbial activity in soil

scientific article published on 17 September 2007

The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

The measurement of soil fungal:bacterial biomass ratios as an indicator of ecosystem self-regulation in temperate meadow grasslands

scientific article published on 25 August 2002

The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe

scientific article

The response of plant diversity to ecosystem retrogression: evidence from contrasting long-term chronosequences

article

The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

article

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article

The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

article

The value of trophic interactions for ecosystem function: dung beetle communities influence seed burial and seedling recruitment in tropical forests

scientific article published in December 2016

Towards a microbial process-based understanding of the resilience of peatland ecosystem service provisioning - A research agenda

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

article by Francesco de Bello et al published 10 April 2010 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Towards more predictive and interdisciplinary climate change ecosystem experiments

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity

scientific article

Understanding ecosystem retrogression

article by Duane A Peltzer et al published November 2010 in Ecological Monographs

Using plant, microbe, and soil fauna traits to improve the predictive power of biogeochemical models

article

Vascular plants promote ancient peatland carbon loss with climate warming

scientific article

Vegetation composition promotes carbon and nitrogen storage in model grassland communities of contrasting soil fertility

article

Vertebrate herbivores and ecosystem control: cascading effects of faeces on tundra ecosystems

scholarly article by René van der Wal et al published April 2004 in Ecography

Warming alters competition for organic and inorganic nitrogen between co-existing grassland plant species

article

Warming effects on greenhouse gas fluxes in peatlands are modulated by vegetation composition

scientific article published on 18 August 2013

Warming reduces the cover and diversity of biocrust-forming mosses and lichens, and increases the physiological stress of soil microbial communities in a semi-arid Pinus halepensis plantation

scientific article

What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System

article

What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System

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