Soil health and sustainable agriculture

M M. Tahat, K M. Alananbeh, Y A. Othman… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
A healthy soil acts as a dynamic living system that delivers multiple ecosystem services,
such as sustaining water quality and plant productivity, controlling soil nutrient recycling …

Ecology and evolution of plant microbiomes

V Cordovez, F Dini-Andreote, VJ Carrión… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Microorganisms colonizing plant surfaces and internal tissues provide a number of life-
support functions for their host. Despite increasing recognition of the vast functional …

Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability

S Liu, P García-Palacios, L Tedersoo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil fungi are fundamental to plant productivity, yet their influence on the temporal stability of
global terrestrial ecosystems, and their capacity to buffer plant productivity against extreme …

Core phylotypes enhance the resistance of soil microbiome to environmental changes to maintain multifunctionality in agricultural ecosystems

S Jiao, J Qi, C Jin, Y Liu, Y Wang, H Pan… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural ecosystems are facing increasing environmental changes. Revealing ecological
stability of belowground organisms is key to developing management strategies that …

Diversity and asynchrony in soil microbial communities stabilizes ecosystem functioning

C Wagg, Y Hautier, S Pellkofer, S Banerjee, B Schmid… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Theoretical and empirical advances have revealed the importance of biodiversity for
stabilizing ecosystem functions through time. Despite the global degradation of soils …

Water availability creates global thresholds in multidimensional soil biodiversity and functions

J Zhang, Y Feng, FT Maestre, M Berdugo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Soils support an immense portion of Earth's biodiversity and maintain multiple ecosystem
functions which are essential for human well-being. Environmental thresholds are known to …

[HTML][HTML] How soil biota regulate C cycling and soil C pools in diversified crop rotations

K Zhang, G Maltais-Landry, HL Liao - Soil biology and Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Agricultural intensification has substantially reduced soil biodiversity as well as
agroecosystem functions and services. Sustainable agroecosystems that increase crop …

Litter and soil biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem functions

S Liu, C Plaza, R Ochoa‐Hueso, C Trivedi… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The decomposition of litter and the supply of nutrients into and from the soil are two
fundamental processes through which the above‐and belowground world interact. Microbial …

Core microbiota drive functional stability of soil microbiome in reforestation ecosystems

S Jiao, W Chen, G Wei - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Revealing the ecological roles of core microbiota in the maintenance of the functional
stability of soil microbiomes is crucial for sustainable ecosystem functioning; however, there …

Identifying thresholds of nitrogen enrichment for substantial shifts in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community metrics in a temperate grassland of northern China

H Wu, J Yang, W Fu, MC Rillig, Z Cao, A Zhao… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen (N) enrichment poses threats to biodiversity and ecosystem stability, while
arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play important roles in ecosystem stability and …