Response to Čapek and Šantrůčková’s comment to “Liming effects on microbial carbon use efficiency and its potential cons...
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Unveiling the impact of human urine fertilization on soil bacterial communities: A path toward sustainable fertilization...
Highlights: • After storage, urine microbiome was depleted but still had few common urine bacteria. • Urine fertilization did not affect the overall soil bacterial community structure. • Urine fertilization increased the abundance of nitrifying and denitrifying groups. • No bacterial salt stress was induced despite high urine salt concentration.Abs...
Hand-feel soil texture classes and particle-size distribution as predictors of soil water content at field capacity. Fur...
Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are increasingly being used to derive difficult-to-measure or cost prohibitive soil properties from more readily available soil data. Soil texture (ST) is one of the most commonly used predictors in PTFs. Soil texture can be determined in the laboratory or estimated manually by soil surveyors in the field. Soil texture...
EARTHWORM EFFECTS ON MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES AND THEIR CASTING AS SOIL AMENDMENTS: A REVIEW
Earthworms play a crucial role in ecosystem functions and services, particularly in shaping soil structure and promoting water infiltration, litter decomposition, and nitrogen mineralization. Their activities modify physical and chemical soil properties, which in turn affect microbial community composition and activity. Several analyses revealed th...
A dataset on earthworm communities in French Guiana
Earthworms represent a crucial taxon in soil ecosystems in terms of biomass and ecological functions. Knowledge of their diversity is growing, but the understanding of the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying this diversity and its distribution patterns remains poorly understood. This is partly due to a lack of community data available...
Quantifying pesticide-contaminated sediment sources in tropical coastal environments (Galion Bay, French West Indies)
Purpose Over the last 60 years, intensification of soil cultivation led to an acceleration of soil erosion and sediment delivery to river systems. In Martinique, this acceleration has led to the remobilization of a toxic insecticide (i.e. chlordecone) used in the 1970s-1990s to control banana weevil. A previous study attributed this accelerated rem...
In situ soil imaging, a tool for monitoring the hourly to monthly temporal dynamics of soil biota
The complexity of the opaque soil matrix is a major obstacle to studying the organisms that inhabit it. Fast technologicalprogress now offers new possibilities for the monitoring of soil biodiversity and root growth, such as in situ soil imaging.This study presents the potential of soil imaging devices to investigate the temporal dynamics and spati...
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition: what are the impacts on silicon dynamics in a subtropical forest?
Background and aims: Plants take up and use silicon (Si) as a beneficial nutrient for growth or survival, which can affect terrestrial Si biogeochemistry and its links with the carbon cycle. While nitrogen (N) deposition can impact many processes in terrestrial ecosystems (soil biogeochemical processes, plant productivity, etc.), how it affects pla...
The development of terrestrial ecosystems emerging after glacier retreat
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The global retreat of glaciers is dramatically altering mountain and high-latitude landscapes, with new ecosystems developing from apparently barren substrates1–4. The study of these emerging ecosystems is critical to understanding how climate change interacts with microhabitat and biotic communities and determines the future of ice-free terrains1,...
Absence of Gigasporales and rarity of spores in a hot desert revealed by a multimethod approach
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Hot deserts impose extreme conditions on plants growing in arid soils. Deserts are expanding due to climate change, thereby increasing the vulnerability of ecosystems and the need to preserve them. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) improve plant fitness by enhancing plant water/nutrient uptake and stress tolerance. However, few studies have focuse...
