Thinning is a common forest management measure that can effectively maintain the
ecological service function of protected forests. However, the effect of thinning on the soil …

Arable land is facing the growing challenge of land degradation due to intensive use and
this is beginning to affect global food security. However, active and passive restoration can …

Soil physicochemical properties are the main driving factors affecting the stability and
diversity of the soil microbial community. The impacts of the saline–alkali situation and …

Aim Soil microbial legacy is a potentially important regulator of the associations of plants
and mycorrhizal fungi. However, our understanding of how plant performance and root …

Biochar and manure can be used for sustainable land management. However, little is known
about how soil amendments might affect surface and belowground microbial processes and …

A short-term in situ 15 N labeling experiment was conducted to investigate whether the N
uptake and preference for different forms of available soil N for dominant plant species and …

Although nitrogen (N) enrichment is known to threaten the temporal stability of aboveground
net primary productivity, it remains unclear how it alters that of belowground microbial …

Streptomyces is a drought-tolerant bacterial genus in soils, which forms close associations
with plants to provide host resilience to drought stress. Here we synthesize the emerging …

Natural restoration (NR, eg, secondary succession) and artificial restoration (AR, eg,
afforestation) are key approaches for rehabilitating degraded land; however, a comparative …

The composition and stability of soil aggregates are important indexes for evaluating soil
quality. They are influenced by many factors in the soil system to varying degrees. The …