Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency and Growth Rates in Soil: Global Patterns and Drivers

J Hu, Y Cui, S Manzoni, S Zhou… - Global Change …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon use efficiency (CUE) of microbial communities in soil quantifies the proportion of
organic carbon (C) taken up by microorganisms that is allocated to growing microbial …

Alpine SOC and Microbial Community Assembly Were Buffered Through Soil Pore Structure Along an Altitudinal Gradient

R Wang, X Hu, Y Zhao, P Pan… - Land Degradation & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Elevation changes influence various environmental factors including cloudiness,
atmospheric density, and temperature. Previous studies on the effects of elevation on …

The altitude shapes the heterogeneity of tree growth by modulating the soil characteristics and microorganisms in the Calocedrus macrolepis plantation

L Wang, Z Li, C Gao, J Li, K Cui - Forest Ecology and Management, 2025 - Elsevier
Altitude plays a crucial role in the growth of trees, as it governs the distribution and
fluctuations of environmental factors such as temperature and precipitation that affect the …

Bioaugmentation and vermicompost facilitated the hydrocarbon bioremediation: scaling up from lab to field for petroleum-contaminated soils

S Curiel-Alegre, AHA Khan, C Rad… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
The biodegradation of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) in soil is very challenging due to
the complex recalcitrant nature of hydrocarbon, hydrophobicity, indigenous microbial …

The heterogeneity of Pinus yunnanensis plantation growth was driven by soil microbial characteristics in different slope aspects

Z Li, Y Chai, C Gao, J Li, K Cui - BMC Plant Biology, 2025 - Springer
The slope aspect is an important environmental factor, which can indirectly change the
acceptable solar radiation of forests. However, the mechanism of how this aspect changes …