Soil salinization is a widespread environmental problem adversely impacting global food
production. Increasing soil organic matter (SOM) could alleviate salt stress, but soil salinity …

Land-use intensification impairs multiple soil ecosystem functions and services (hereafter
'soil multifunctionality'; SMF) crucial to human wellbeing by influencing plant diversity and …

Bacterial diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) vary along environmental
gradients. However, little is known about interconnections between EMF and taxonomic and …

Soil biocrusts, as the fundamental component of drylands, alter soil microbial and plant
community compositions, thus profoundly affecting soil multifunctionality (SMF). Biocrust …

Partial substitution of synthetic nitrogen (N) with organic fertilizers (PSOF) is of great
significance in improving soil ecosystem functions in systems that have deteriorated due to …

Biodiversity is important for supporting ecosystem functioning. To evaluate the factors
contributing to the strength of microbial diversity-function relationships in complex terrestrial …

The spatially heterogeneous distribution of soil nutrients is ubiquitous in terrestrial
ecosystems and has been shown to promote the performance of plant communities …

Soil microbial communities are essential in regulating ecosystem functions and services.
However, the importance of bacterial and fungal communities as predictors of multiple soil …

The structure and function of microbial communities vary along environmental gradients;
however, interlinking the two has been challenging. In this study, salinity was used as an …

Background Soil salinization threatens food security and ecosystem health, and is one of the
important drivers to the degradation of many ecosystems around the world. Soil …