Soils under natural, tropical forests provide essential ecosystem services that have been
shaped by long-term soil–vegetation feedbacks. However, deforestation of tropical forest …

Soil fungi and bacteria are the key players in the transformation and processing of carbon
and nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems, yet controls on their abundance and activity are not …

Soil gross nitrogen (N) mineralization (GNM), a key microbial process in the global N cycle,
is mainly controlled by climate and soil properties. This study provides for the first time a …

Soil gross nitrification (GN) is a critical process in the global nitrogen (N) cycle that results in
the formation of nitrate through microbial oxidation of ammonium or organic N, and can both …

Microbial nitrogen (N) immobilization, which typically results in soil N retention but based on
the balance of gross N immobilization over gross N production, affects the fate of the …

Soil microorganisms play important roles in nitrogen cycling within forest ecosystems.
Current research has revealed that a wider variety of microorganisms, with unexpected …

Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition has accelerated terrestrial N cycling at regional and
global scales, causing nutrient imbalance in many natural and seminatural ecosystems …

In this review, we synthesize field and culture studies of the 15N/14N (expressed as δ15 N)
of autotrophic plants, mycoheterotrophic plants, parasitic plants, soil, and mycorrhizal fungi …

Nitrogen (N) deposition is a component of global change that has considerable impact on
belowground carbon (C) dynamics. Plant growth stimulation and alterations of fungal …

We maintained a factorial nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) addition
experiment for 11 years in a humid lowland forest growing on a relatively fertile soil in …