Patterns and processes of neglected biodiversity through the lens of environmental DNA
Stochastic Processes Dominate the Assembly of Soil Bacterial Communities of Land Use Patterns in Lesser Khingan Mountain...
To meet the demands of a growing population, natural wetlands are being converted to arable land, significantly impacting soil biodiversity. This study investigated the effects of land use changes on bacterial communities in wetland, arable land, and forest soils in the Lesser Khingan Mountains using Illumina MiSeq 16S rRNA sequencing. Soil physico...
Variations in the structure and function of the soil fungal communities in the traditional cropping systems from Madeira...
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology
Agricultural soils are responsible for ecological functions and services that include primary production of food, fiber and fuel, nutrient cycling, carbon cycling and storage, water infiltration and purification, among others. Fungi are important drivers of most of those ecosystem services. Given the importance of fungi in agricultural soils, in th...
Impact of soil fissure status on microbial community in mining-disturbed area, the northern Shaanxi province
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology
Mining disturbance has great impacts on soil physicochemical factors, causing notable differences between pre-mining and after-mining conditions, and between coal mining areas and non-mined areas. However, little is known about whether the fissure statuses induced by mining activities affect the edaphic factors and how soil microbial communities re...
Soil Microbial Biomass and Microarthropod Community Responses to Conventional and Biodegradable Plastics
Plastic mulch is a commonly employed technique in agriculture to enhance crop production. Given the persistence of plastic residues in soil, bioplastics offer a potential alternative. Unfortunately, little is known about the medium-term consequences of both plastic and bioplastic mulches on soil properties. This study aimed to assess the medium-ter...
Reduced tillage intensity does not increase arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity in European long-term experiments
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Abstract Mechanical soil disturbance is one among the key factors influencing soil biodiversity in agriculture. Although many soil organisms are sensitive to soil disturbance, fungi could be highly impacted due to their sessile lifestyle, relatively slow growth and filamentous body structure. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are of particular inte...
Ciliated Protist Communities in Soil: Contrasting Patterns in Natural Sites and Arable Lands across Italy
This study represents the first investigation of soil ciliate diversity and community structure in the Marche region, Italy, encompassing both natural sites and agro-ecosystems. The main aims were (i) to assess the ability of ciliates to discriminate between different types of land uses, i.e., arable lands and possible farming management practices ...
Harmonized soil biodiversity database to describe ecological status and soil health (MINOTAUR database)
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Existing differences in soil biodiversity data quality and geographic distribution seriously hamper effective use of available knowledge. The MINOTAUR project aims to optimize the data coupling, harmonization and analysis of soil biodiversity from various national and European data sources to support long-term harmonized European soil information a...
Both organic fertilizer and biochar applications enhanced soil nutrition but inhibited cyanobacterial community in paddy...
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Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Cyanobacteria plays an important role in other ecological processes in paddy soils, particularly in terms of nitrogen input to the ecosystem. Organic fertilizer and biochar are common soil amendment materials used to preserve soil health in agricultural intensification background. However, the consequent increase in soil nutrition may inhibit soil ...
Trechus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Appalachia: A Phylogenetic Insight into the History of High Elevation Leaf Litter Com...
Elevation gradients provide a wealth of habitats for a wide variety of organisms. The southern Appalachian Mountains in eastern United States are known for their high biodiversity and rates of endemism in arthropods, including in high-elevation leaf-litter taxa that are often found nowhere else on earth. Trechus Clairville (Coleoptera: Carabidae) i...
