Soil enzyme activity: a brief history and biochemistry as a basis for appropriate interpretations and meta-analysis

P Nannipieri, C Trasar-Cepeda, RP Dick - Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2018 - Springer
Enzyme activity as a method for soil biochemistry and microbiology research has a long
history of more than 100 years that is not widely acknowledged in terms of adherence to …

A meta-analysis of soil extracellular enzyme activities in response to global change

W Xiao, X Chen, X Jing, B Zhu - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
The crucial biogeochemical processes such as carbon and nutrient cycling are increasingly
altered at the ecosystem scale by global environmental changes. Although soil extracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular enzyme activity and stoichiometry: The effect of soil microbial element limitation during leaf litter decomposition

X Bai, MA Dippold, S An, B Wang, H Zhang… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
To explore carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) dynamics during leaf litter
decomposition, we investigated the temporal variability of soil microbial biomass and …

Differential responses of soil microbial biomass and carbon-degrading enzyme activities to altered precipitation

C Ren, F Zhao, Z Shi, J Chen, X Han, G Yang… - Soil Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Altered precipitation regimes have a great impact on global climate change, with potentially
important effects on below-ground carbon dynamics. Soil microbes and carbon (C) …

Soil enzyme activity in response to long-term organic matter manipulation

Z Kotroczo, Z Veres, I Fekete, Z Krakomperger… - Soil Biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Enzymes are considered to be a key soil component catalysing important transformations
related to decomposition and nutrient turnover, and their activity in soil can be used as a …

Differential responses of carbon‐degrading enzyme activities to warming: Implications for soil respiration

J Chen, Y Luo, P García‐Palacios, J Cao… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular enzymes catalyze rate‐limiting steps in soil organic matter decomposition, and
their activities (EEAs) play a key role in determining soil respiration (SR). Both EEAs and SR …

Global meta-analysis on the responses of soil extracellular enzyme activities to warming

C Meng, D Tian, H Zeng, Z Li, HYH Chen… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil enzymes play critical roles in the decomposition of organic matter and determine the
availability of soil nutrients, however, there are significant uncertainties in regard to how …

Inactive and inefficient: Warming and drought effect on microbial carbon processing in alpine grassland at depth

E Zhu, Z Cao, J Jia, C Liu, Z Zhang… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Subsoils contain> 50% of soil organic carbon (SOC) globally yet remain under‐investigated
in terms of their response to climate changes. Recent evidence suggests that warmer, drier …

Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry and nutrient dynamics along a revegetation chronosequence in the soils of abandoned land and Robinia pseudoacacia plantation on the …

W Zhang, Y Xu, D Gao, X Wang, W Liu, J Deng… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The effects of vegetation restoration on plant characteristics and soil physicochemical
properties have been widely documented; however, knowledge of the variation in soil …

Activities of functional enzymes involved in C, N, and P conversion and their stoichiometry during agricultural waste composting with biochar and biogas residue …

N Wang, L Ren, J Zhang, MK Awasthi, B Yan… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
This experiment was carried out to explore the effects of biochar, biogas residue and their
combination amendment on enzyme activities and their stoichiometry during agricultural …