Soil microbial communities are subjected to significant changes over time. The most rapid
changes caused by temperature and soil moisture alternations or the by the inflow of fresh …

The collapse of collective farming in Russia after 1990 led to the abandonment of 23% of the
agricultural area. Microbial biomass is a transit pool between fresh and soil organic matter; …

Polyethylene film is one of the most common types of recalcitrant plastic waste materials.
Information regarding the fate of plastic films in soil is scarce compared to the fate of plastic …

Numbers of bacterial, archaeal, and fungal ribosomal gene copies and the taxonomic
structure of prokaryotic communities in virgin tropical soils under weakly impacted monsoon …

The concept of biological memory of soils and cultural layers is developed. This term is
understood as information about soil-forming conditions of the past that is carried by living …

Studying the taxonomic diversity of soil microbiota has a great theoretical significance for
understanding the structure of the microbial community and the involvement of …

Loess-paleosol sequences are terrestrial archives of past climate change. They may host
traces of ancient microbial life, but little information is available on the recovery of microbial …

Burial mounds represent a challenge for microbiologists. Could ancient buried soils
preserve microbiomes as they do archaeological artifacts? To investigate this question, we …

The microbiome of soils and supraglacial formations in background and oil-polluted
ecosystems of Hayes Island (Franz Josef Land) was studied using the methods of …

The article summarizes the results of long-term studies of microbial biomass in buried soils
of archaeological sites and recent reference soils. Geographically, the objects of study are …