Plants are now recognized as metaorganisms which are composed of a host plant
associated with a multitude of microbes that provide the host plant with a variety of essential …

Environmental disturbances seem to be increasing in frequency and impact, yet we have
little understanding of the belowground impacts of these events. Soil fauna, while widely …

Microbial necromass carbon (C) has been considered an important contributor to persistent
soil C pool. However, there still lacks large‐scale systematic observations on microbial …

Soil microbial communities directly affect soil functionality through their roles in the cycling of
soil nutrients and carbon storage. Microbial communities vary substantially in space and …

The use of lower concentrations and fewer applications of herbicides is one of the prime
objectives of the sustainable agriculture as it decreases the toxicity to non-targeted …

Soil quality is threatened by the increase in human population and by the fact that most of
the cultivable land is intensively used. The initial interest in this topic focused on defining soil …

Understanding how fungal communities are affected by precipitation is an essential aspect
of predicting soil functional responses to future climate change and the consequences of …

It was hypothesized that seasonality and resource availability altered through tree girdling
were major determinants of the phylogenetic composition of the archaeal and bacterial …

Microbial enzymes play a fundamental role in ecosystem processes and nutrient
mineralization. Therefore understanding enzyme responses to anthropogenic environmental …

Agriculture is the major economic activity of most developing countries engaging more than
50% of the population. Low world crop productivity due to low soil moisture, low nutrient …