Microbial regulation of terrestrial nitrous oxide formation: understanding the biological pathways for prediction of emission rates

HW Hu, D Chen, JZ He - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The continuous increase of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) in the atmosphere due
to increasing anthropogenic nitrogen input in agriculture has become a global concern. In …

Comammox—a newly discovered nitrification process in the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

HW Hu, JZ He - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2017 - Springer
Purpose Nitrification, the microbial oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, is a pivotal
component of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. Nitrification was conventionally assumed …

[HTML][HTML] Soil bacterial taxonomic diversity is critical to maintaining the plant productivity

QL Chen, J Ding, YG Zhu, JZ He, HW Hu - Environment International, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil microbial communities play a central role in driving multiple ecosystem functions and
ecological processes that are key to maintaining the plant productivity. However, we lack …

Microbial communities in crop phyllosphere and root endosphere are more resistant than soil microbiota to fertilization

A Sun, XY Jiao, Q Chen, AL Wu, Y Zheng… - Soil Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Crop harbors diverse microbial communities that profoundly influence host health and
agricultural productivity. Crop habitat is a dynamic and heterogeneous environment, and …

Comammox Nitrospira play an active role in nitrification of agricultural soils amended with nitrogen fertilizers

C Li, HW Hu, QL Chen, D Chen, JZ He - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
The recent discovery of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox Nitrospira) challenged the
paradigm of the two-step nitrification mediated by two distinct groups of nitrifiers, and raised …

Quantitative microbial ecology through stable isotope probing

BA Hungate, RL Mau, E Schwartz… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacteria grow and transform elements at different rates, and as yet, quantifying this variation
in the environment is difficult. Determining isotope enrichment with fine taxonomic resolution …

C: N: P stoichiometry of plants, soils, and microorganisms: Response to altered precipitation

J Li, L Deng, J Peñuelas, J Wu… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation changes modify C, N, and P cycles, which regulate the functions and structure
of terrestrial ecosystems. Although altered precipitation affects above‐and belowground C …

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 …

Niche differentiation of clade A comammox Nitrospira and canonical ammonia oxidizers in selected forest soils

C Li, HW Hu, QL Chen, D Chen, JZ He - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Unravelling the ecological niche differentiation between comammox Nitrospira, ammonia-
oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) is essential to understand forest nitrogen …

Rice straw biochar mitigated more N2O emissions from fertilized paddy soil with higher water content than that derived from ex situ biowaste

X Xu, C He, X Yuan, Q Zhang, S Wang, B Wang… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biochar could mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, especially nitrous oxide (N 2 O). Effects
of interactions between different biochar and water content on N 2 O emissions from rice …