The response of soil multi-functionality to agricultural management practices can be predicted by key soil abiotic and biotic properties

L Nazaries, BP Singh, JR Sarker, Y Fang… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil organisms play an essential role in ecosystem functioning, including nutrient cycling
and climate regulation. Most of soil functions have a microbial origin and recent findings …

Agricultural soil microbiomes differentiate in soil profiles with fertility source, tillage, and cover crops

RL Bier, M Daniels, D Oviedo-Vargas… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil microbiota are critical to soil health, yet a substantial knowledge gap remains to
understand how microbial communities can be interpreted as soil health parameters and …

Long-term land use effects on soil microbial community structure and function

A Bissett, AE Richardson, G Baker, PH Thrall - Applied Soil Ecology, 2011 - Elsevier
Microbial community diversity and structure, which underpin soil function, can in turn be
impacted by land-use practices. In this study an agricultural site with consistent long term (+ …

Long-term management drives divergence in soil microbial biomass, richness, and composition among upper Midwest, USA cropping systems

TS Potter, L Vereecke, RA Lankau, GR Sanford… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Long-term, systems-based experiments have previously demonstrated how different
cropping systems change soil physiochemical properties and, less commonly, soil microbial …

Trade-offs in soil microbial functions and soil health in agroecosystems

C Gao, TM Bezemer, FT de Vries… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Soil microbial communities play pivotal roles in maintaining soil health in agroecosystems.
However, how the delivery of multiple microbial functions in agroecosystems is maintained …

Relative importance of soil properties and microbial community for soil functionality: insights from a microbial swap experiment

M Delgado‐Baquerizo, J Grinyer, PB Reich… - Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The most accepted theories in soil ecology suggest that broad (eg respiration) and
specialized (eg denitrification) functions are affected differently by resource availability and …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic drivers of soil microbial communities and impacts on soil biological functions in agroecosystems

T Yang, N Lupwayi, SA Marc, KHM Siddique… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic interventions play a key role in promoting positive feedback of soil–plant–
environment interactions, but systematic reports on how anthropogenic activities influence …

Zonal soil type determines soil microbial responses to maize cropping and fertilization

M Zhao, B Sun, L Wu, Q Gao, F Wang, C Wen… - …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Soil types heavily influence ecological dynamics. It remains controversial to what extent soil
types shape microbial responses to land management changes, largely due to lack of in …

Functional response of soil microbial communities to tillage, cover crops and nitrogen fertilization

E Nivelle, J Verzeaux, H Habbib, Y Kuzyakov… - Applied Soil …, 2016 - Elsevier
Agricultural practices such as tillage, cover crops, and nitrogen (N) fertilization affect physico-
chemical and biological soil parameters. However, these factors were often studied …

Different facets of bacterial and fungal communities drive soil multifunctionality in grasslands spanning a 3500 km transect

L Ma, C Zhang, X Xu, C Wang, G Liu, C Liang… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil microbial communities are essential in regulating ecosystem functions and services.
However, the importance of bacterial and fungal communities as predictors of multiple soil …