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Increased exploitation and use of petroleum resources is leading to increased risk of petroleum contamination of soil and groundwater. Although phytoremediation is a widely-used and cost-effective method for rehabilitating soils polluted by petroleum...

Afforestation plays a pivotal role in ecosystem restoration, exemplified by the Saihanba Mechanized Forest Farm, the world’s largest planted forest; however, the assembly mechanisms and interactions of soil microbial communities in such forests...

Being regarded as one of the environmental problems endangering biodiversity and ecosystem health, acid rain has attracted wide attention. Here, we studied the effects of nitric acid rain (NAR) on the structure and diversity of microbial communities...

Changes in crop types and long-term monoculture substantially impact soil microbial communities. Exploring these changes and their influencing factors is of great significance for addressing the challenges posed by continuous cropping. Soil surface l...

Metals and mineral flotation collector’s toxicity to the soil living system greatly compromise the sustainability of mining and ore processing. Their effects on the soil microbial community, the most active soil component, remain less understoo...

Soil bacterial communities play crucial roles in ecosystem functions and biogeochemical cycles of fundamental elements and are sensitive to environmental changes. However, the response of soil bacterial communities to chronosequence in tropical ecosy...

Shifts in soil bacterial diversity and community composition are suggested to be induced by elevated input of nitrogen (N) fertilization with implications for soil quality, and consequently production. In this study, we evaluated the impacts of recom...

Mycorrhiza helper bacteria (MHB) play an important role in driving mycorrhizal formation. There are few reports on the relationship between bacteria and fruiting growths. Taking mycorrhizal rhizosphere soil from sporocarps of the S. luteus and non-my...

Citrus orchards receive increasing amounts of nitrogen fertilizer for the purpose of optimal yields and good quality of citrus fruits. Although the effects of increased nitrogen fertilizer on citrus fruit trees have been reasonably well studied, few...

The bacterial community of rhizosphere soil maintains soil properties, regulates the microbiome, improves productivity, and sustains agriculture. However, the structure and function of bacterial communities have been interrupted or destroyed by unrea...

The dynamic response of soil bacterial communities to fertilization throughout the entire crop growth cycle remains inadequately characterized. To address this, we conducted a long-term field experiment in Jiangle County, Fujian Province, China, and...

Fertilization can improve soil nutrition and increase the yield of Sapindus mukorossi, but the response of soil microbial communities to fertilization treatments and their correlation with soil nutrition and Sapindus mukorossi yield are unclear. In o...

The use of nanoparticles, such as titanium dioxide (TiO₂-NPs), has increased substantially over the years. Some of them will end up in the soil, where their effect on plants and the soil bacterial community needs to be studied to determine their poss...

Salicornia europaea L. is a well-known model plant for studying the mechanism of salt tolerance. A substantial decline in the S. europaea population has been observed in the semi-arid steppe of the Mongolian Plateau. The relationship between environm...

With the development of sustainable agriculture, the application of organic fertilizers to crops instead of chemical fertilizers has become an inevitable trend. However, little is known about the proportion of organic fertilizers replacing chemical f...

Invasive and native plants can coexist in the same habitat; however, the decomposition process may be altered by the mixing of invasive and native leaves. Heavy metal contamination may further alter the co-decomposition of both leaf types. This study...

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition affects the health of forest ecosystems by altering soil microbial activity. However, the effects of nitrogen addition levels, morphology and ecosystem type on whether nitrogen addition is beneficial or detrimental to...

Although the importance of the soil bacterial community for ecosystem functions has long been recognized, there is still a limited understanding of the associations between its community composition, structure, co-occurrence patterns, and soil physic...

Soil microbiota are significantly influenced by their microenvironments. Therefore, to understand the impacts of various land use patterns on the diversity and composition of soil bacterial communities, this study focused on three typical land use ty...

The soil microbiome is an important component of wetland ecosystems and plays a pivotal role in nutrient cycling and climate regulation. Nitrogen (N) addition influences the soil’s microbial diversity, composition, and function by affecting the...

The soil bacterial community structure is sensitive to different agricultural management practices and changes in the soil community composition can affect ecosystem sustainability and ecosystem stability. The basic idea of reduced and conservation s...

Soil microbial communities face the combined pressures of climate change and biodiversity loss, yet how these stressors interact to shape ecosystem function remains a critical uncertainty. To investigate this, we established a constructed grassland p...

Soil bacteria are important components of forest ecosystems, there compostion structure and functions are sensitive to environmental conditions along elevation gradients. Using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing followed by FAPROTAX function predictio...

Soil microorganisms are critical factors of plant productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. Coptis chinensis Franch is one of the most important medicinal plants in China. Soil types and cropping systems influence the diversity and composition of the r...

The application amount of fertilizer is believed to dramatically influence soil bacteria in paddy fields, and soil bacteria critically affect soil enzyme activities and the growth of rice in paddy fields. Thus, providing a suitable amount of fertiliz...

Land-use type is a key factor influencing soil properties, microbial community composition, and plant nutrient status. In this study, five land-use types (Tibetan barley, rapeseed, walnut, wheat, and weeds) were investigated in a river valley of sout...

Soil bacteria play a fundamental role in pedogenesis. However, knowledge about both the impact of climate and slope aspects on microbial communities and the consequences of these items in pedogenesis is lacking. Therefore, soil-bacterial communities...

The invasion of Spartina alterniflora (S. alterniflora) has caused serious damage to coastal wetland ecosystems in China, especially the mangrove wetlands in South China. This study aimed to validate the effect of imazapyr on S. alterniflora and soil...

Soil microorganisms play an important role in regulating a variety of ecological functions. In recent years, the research on ecological restoration after mining has made people more aware of the importance of microbial diversity to ecosystem restorat...

Soil microbial communities play an important role in maintaining the ecosystem during forest secondary succession. However, the underlying mechanisms that drive change in soil microbial community structures during secondary succession remain poorly d...

Soil bacteria are crucial components of terrestrial ecosystems, playing an important role in soil biogeochemical cycles. Although bacterial community diversity and composition are regulated by many abiotic and biotic factors, how soil physiochemical...

Understanding the distribution patterns of soil bacterial community structure and diversity across different forest types is essential for elucidating the mechanisms underlying microbial community assembly and its ecological drivers, particularly und...

Field and laboratory investigations were conducted to characterize bacterial diversity and community structure in a badly contaminated mangrove wetland adjacent to the metropolitan area of a megacity in subtropical China. Next-generation sequencing t...

Spartina alterniflora invasion has negative effects on the structure and functioning of coastal wetland ecosystems. Therefore, many methods for controlling S. alterniflora invasion have been developed. S. alterniflora control methods can affect plant...

The characteristics and responses of soil bacterial communities and potato productivity to different fertilization treatments in farmlands in the agropastoral zone of Inner Mongolia were investigated. Moreover, the diversity and structure of soil bac...

Alpine ecosystems, as one of the most representative terrestrial ecosystems, have garnered significant attention due to their susceptibility to human activities and climate change. However, the distribution patterns and driving factors of alpine soil...

Application of organic fertilizers or their combination with chemical fertilizers is a feasible practice for improving soil fertility and reducing soil degradation in agroecosystems, and these regulations are mainly mediated though soil microbial com...

High-throughput sequencing is commonly used to study soil microbial communities. However, different primers targeting different 16S rRNA hypervariable regions often generate different microbial communities and result in different values of diversity...

This study aims to analyze the differences in soil bacterial community structure under different vegetation restoration types, and to explore the role of microorganisms in the process of vegetation restoration on the soil ecosystem of the Grain for G...

Global warming leads to the melting of permafrost, affects changes in soil microbial community structures and related functions, and contributes to the soil carbon cycle in permafrost areas. Located at the southern edge of Eurasia’s permafrost...

Understanding soil bacterial diversity under global warming is necessary because of its crucial role in soil nitrogen cycling. However, the interaction effect of warmer temperatures and nitrogen application on bacterial communities in the soils of wi...

Soil microbes play crucial roles in grassland ecosystem functions, such as soil carbon (C) pool and nutrient cycle. Soil microbes in grasslands are susceptible to the degradation mediated by climate change and anthropogenic disturbance. However, rese...

The soil microbial community plays a crucial role in the elemental cycling and energy flow within wetland ecosystems. The temporal dynamics and spatial distribution of soil microbial communities are central topics in ecology. While numerous studies h...

Soil bacterial and fungal community communities play significant ecological functions in mountain ecosystems. However, it is not clear how topographic factors and soil physicochemical properties influence changes in microbial community structure and...

The soil nitrogen (N) cycle is an essential role of the biogeochemical cycle. Bacteria play an irreplaceable part in the soil N cycle, but the impact of different N gradients on bacterial communities remains unclear. The purpose of this research was...

The actctivated carbon + solar radiation membrane is an eco-friendly soil disinfestations method for managing soil-borne plant pathogens. However, little was known the impact of Activated carbon + solar radiation membrane on bacterial community struc...

Increasing salinity undermines soil fertility and imposes great threats to soil ecosystem productivity and ecological sustainability. Microbes with the ability to adapt to environmental adversity have gained increasing attention for maintenance and r...

The diversity, community structure and vertical distribution characteristics of bacteria in the surface and subsurface soil and water samples of a closed landfill in Shanghai Jiading District were investigated to reveal the relationships between natu...

Agroforestry (tree-based intercropping) is regarded as a promising practice in sustainable agricultural management. However, the impacts of converting cropland to an agroforestry system on microbial communities remain poorly understood. In this study...

Despite increasing investigations having studied the changing patterns of soil microbial communities along forest plantation development age sequences, the underlying phylogenetic assemblages are seldom studied for microbial community. Here, the soil...