The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services

DJ Eldridge, E Guirado, PB Reich, R Ochoa-Hueso… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soil mosses are among the most widely distributed organisms on land. Experiments and
observations suggest that they contribute to terrestrial soil biodiversity and function, yet their …

Water availability creates global thresholds in multidimensional soil biodiversity and functions

J Zhang, Y Feng, FT Maestre, M Berdugo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Soils support an immense portion of Earth's biodiversity and maintain multiple ecosystem
functions which are essential for human well-being. Environmental thresholds are known to …

Microbial interactions for nutrient acquisition in soil: miners, scavengers, and carriers

T Cao, Y Luo, M Shi, X Tian, Y Kuzyakov - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial interactions in soil are hidden, as they occur stealthily in a 'dark box'. This greatly
limits our understanding of microbial functions. Here, soil microorganisms were classified …

Litter and soil biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem functions

S Liu, C Plaza, R Ochoa‐Hueso, C Trivedi… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The decomposition of litter and the supply of nutrients into and from the soil are two
fundamental processes through which the above‐and belowground world interact. Microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Grassland degradation-induced declines in soil fungal complexity reduce fungal community stability and ecosystem multifunctionality

S Luo, GK Png, NJ Ostle, H Zhou, X Hou, C Luo… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil microorganisms are major regulators of ecosystem functioning and are under threat
from human-induced disturbances. Among these threats is grassland degradation, which is …

Linking bacterial life strategies with soil organic matter accrual by karst vegetation restoration

P Hu, W Zhang, Y Kuzyakov, L Xiao, D Xiao… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation restoration affects belowground microbial diversity and trait-based life strategies,
as well as soil organic matter (SOM) accumulation. Despite the growing focus on microbial …

Microbial community assembly and its influencing factors of secondary forests in Qinling Mountains

X Huo, C Ren, D Wang, R Wu, Y Wang, Z Li… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest soil microbial community is easily modified by changes in plant composition.
Therefore, differences in the assembly of soil microbial community within different forest …

Interactive effects of global change drivers as determinants of the link between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

A Berlinches de Gea, Y Hautier… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity, both aboveground and belowground, is negatively affected by global changes
such as drought or warming. This loss of biodiversity impacts Earth's ecosystems, as there is …

Decreased soil multifunctionality is associated with altered microbial network properties under precipitation reduction in a semiarid grassland

X Wang, Q Zhang, Z Zhang, W Li, W Liu, N Xiao, H Liu… - IMeta, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Decreased precipitation significantly suppressed the nutrient provisioning, microbial growth
efficiency, LOM decomposition, and thus, the averaging multifunctionality by 42.6%(p< …

Soil microbial community and their functional genes during grassland restoration

J Liao, Y Dou, X Yang, S An - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil microbial functional genes are linked with carbon (C) as well as nitrogen (N) cycling
processes, and their relative abundances are strongly affected by ecosystem managements …