Cover crops may improve soil health and increase soil carbon sequestration, thus
contributing to both the adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. Despite these …

Microbial activities are the dynamic core in the soil nutrient cycle. To improve the
knowledges about the responses of soil microbial community structure and potential function …

Understanding the effects of alternative farming on soil quality parameters, such as microbial
communities, size, activity and soil nutrient content, is of central importance to concepts of …

Rapid depletion of global fertilizer and fossil fuel reserves, combined with concerns about
global warming, have resulted in increased interest in alternative strategies for sustaining …

Soil microbial respiration is a central process in the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle. In this study,
I tested the effect of the carbon-to-nitrogen (C: N) ratio of soil litter layers on microbial …

In sustainable tropical agriculture, grass-legume intercropping can increase productivity,
enhance the nutritional quality of the crop and affect soil microbiological activity, leading to …

Plants are the essential factors shaping soil microbial community (SMC) structure. When
most studies focus on the difference in the SMC structure associated different plant species …

Quantification of seasonal dynamics of soil C and N pools is crucial to understand the land
management practices for enhancing agricultural sustainability. In a cover crop (CC) …

Microbial communities are important for the functioning of the ecosystem, both in relation to
direct interactions with the plants and with regard to nutrient and organic matter recycling. A …

Purpose Cover crop residue is generally applied to improve soil quality and crop
productivity. Improved understanding of dynamics of soil extractable organic carbon (EOC) …