Heavy metal (HM) contamination caused by mining and smelting activities can be harmful to
soil microbiota, which are highly sensitive to HM stress. Here, we explore the effects of HM …

Objective The potential ecological risk index (RI) is the most commonly used method to
assess heavy metals (HMs) contamination in soils. However, studies have focused on the …

Soil contamination with multiple heavy metals poses threats to human health and ecosystem
functioning. Using the Nemerow pollution index, which considers the effects of multiple …

Mining activities lead to significant heavy metal pollution in nearby farmland soils, affecting
the soil's microbial community and functions. To comprehensively investigate the heavy …

Soil pollution is an important stressor affecting biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
However, we lack a holistic understanding of how soil microbial communities respond to …

The microbial effect of long-term heavy metal pollution on farmland remains unclear. Here,
we investigated microbial (bacterial and fungal) communities in topsoil and rhizosphere …

Residual heavy metals in soils will destroy microbial community stability and influence its
aggregation. However, exploring microbial ecology under heavy-metal stress still requires a …

Metal pollution has raised negative impact on microbes, but little is known about the
distribution and co-occurrence pattern of bacterial, fungal and archaeal communities along …

The response of soil microbes to heavy metal pollution provides a metric to evaluate the soil
health and ecological risks associated with heavy metal contamination. However, a …

Mining and smelting activities have introduced severe potentially toxic metals (PTMs)
contamination into surrounding soil settings. Influences of PTMs on microbial diversity have …