This review covers historical perspectives, the role of plant inputs, and the nature and
dynamics of soil organic matter (SOM), often known as humus. Information on turnover of …

Reduction in soil fertility and depletion of natural resources due to current intensive
agricultural practices along with climate changes are the major constraints for crop …

Fungi contribute extensively to a wide range of ecosystem processes, including
decomposition of organic carbon, deposition of recalcitrant carbon, and transformations of …

Treefall gap, canopy opening caused by the death of one or more trees, is the dominant form
of disturbance in many forest systems worldwide. Gaps play an important role in forest …

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Background Land use/cover and management practices are widely known to influence soil
organic matter (S OM) quality and quantity. The present study investigated the effect of …

Priming effects are strong short-term changes in the turnover of soil organic matter caused
by comparatively moderate treatments of the soil. In the course of priming effects large …

Soil organic matter (SOM) is known to play vital roles in the maintenance and improvement
of many soil properties and processes. These roles, which largely influence soil functions …

Soil organic matter (SOM) consists of various functional pools that are stabilized by specific
mechanisms and have certain turnover rates. For the development of mechanistic models …

A current debate in ecology centers on the extent to which ecosystem function depends on
biodiversity. Here, we provide evidence from a long‐term field manipulation of plant diversity …