A Katayama, M Oyamada, H Abe… - Journal of Forest …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Increases in the number of wild herbivores resulted in understory degradation because of their overgrazing in forest ecosystems. Deer overgrazing has occurred soil erosion in …
Soil fungi are the predominant decomposers of soil organic matter (SOM). To manage SOM in tropical agricultural soils, it is important to understand the effects of agricultural …
Y Huang, N Kaneko, T Nakamori, T Miura… - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Vast forest areas in eastern Japan have been contaminated with radio-isotopes by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident. Radiocesium (radioCs) is known …
M Arai, Y Minamiya, H Tsuzura, Y Watanabe… - Geoderma, 2014 - Elsevier
Soil carbon (C) is crucial for maintaining soil functions, and it increases after conversion of an agricultural field from conventional tillage management to no-tillage management due to …
Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) and ester-linked fatty acid methyl ester (EL-FAME) extraction methods have been commonly used for estimating microbial biomass and characterizing …
Nematode community studies have been carried out in various forests for several decades. However, in forest ecosystems, the diversity of woody plant taxa with different plant species …
To minimize the degradation of soil organic matter (SOM) content in conventional sugarcane cropping, it is important to understand how the fungal community contributes to SOM …
S Niwa, L Mariani, N Kaneko, H Okada… - Forest Ecology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Modification of forest vegetation caused by an overabundance of mammalian herbivores has been reported in temperate and subarctic regions all over the world. However, the …