Salt effects on the soil microbial decomposer community and their role in organic carbon cycling: a review

KM Rath, J Rousk - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Salinization of soil is recognised as one of the most pressing environmental challenges to
resolve for the next century. We here conduct a synoptic review of the available research on …

Salt-affected soils, reclamation, carbon dynamics, and biochar: a review

S Amini, H Ghadiri, C Chen, P Marschner - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2016 - Springer
Purpose This paper reviews chemical, physical, and biological problems of salt-affected
soils and different reclamation methods applied to rehabilitate these soils. Methods Methods …

Number of simultaneously acting global change factors affects composition, diversity and productivity of grassland plant communities

B Speißer, RA Wilschut, M Van Kleunen - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Plant communities experience impacts of increasing numbers of global change factors (eg,
warming, eutrophication, pollution). Consequently, unpredictable global change effects …

Microbial and enzyme activities of saline and sodic soils

K Singh - Land Degradation & Development, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Salinization and sodication are abiotic soil factors, important hazards to soil fertility and
consequently affect the crop production. Soil salinization is of great concern for irrigated …

Leaching and reclamation of a biochar and compost amended saline–sodic soil with moderate SAR reclaimed water

VN Chaganti, DM Crohn, J Šimůnek - Agricultural Water Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Remediating saline–sodic soils with organic amendments is increasingly seen as a cheaper
and sustainable alternative to inorganic materials. The reclamation potential of biochar …

Assessing the effect of soil salinization on soil microbial respiration and diversities under incubation conditions

C Yang, X Wang, F Miao, Z Li, W Tang, J Sun - Applied Soil Ecology, 2020 - Elsevier
Salinization is a matter of growing concern as it decreases plant productivity in degraded
grassland soils; however, its effects on bacterial and fungal communities remain unknown …

Restoration of carbon and microbial activity in salt-induced soil by application of peanut shell biochar during short-term incubation study

D Bhaduri, A Saha, D Desai, HN Meena - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
For the present study, soil samples of four artificially-induced salinity gradients (S 0: control,
S 1: 2.0, S 2: 4.0, S 3: 6.0 EC iw) was incubated with fine-textured peanut shell biochar at …

Response of microbial communities and enzyme activities to amendments in saline-alkaline soils

S Shi, L Tian, F Nasir, A Bahadur, A Batool, S Luo… - Applied Soil …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil salinization is one of the key factors that threatens plant existence worldwide and is a
major challenge to sustain crop production and soil quality. However, there has been limited …

Impacts of salinization caused by sea level rise on the biological processes of coastal soils-a review

S Mazhar, E Pellegrini, M Contin, C Bravo… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Soil salinization caused by sea level rise threatens coastal agricultural soils and
geochemically important wetlands worldwide. The aim of this review is to outline expected …

Native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve growth, biomass yield, and phosphorus nutrition of sorghum in saline and sodic soils of the semi–arid region

P Chandra, A Singh, K Prajapat, AK Rai… - … and Experimental Botany, 2022 - Elsevier
Exploiting symbiotic plant-microbe interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)
adapted to hostile soil can be a promising approach for enhancing crop productivity and …