Salinization of soil is recognised as one of the most pressing environmental challenges to
resolve for the next century. We here conduct a synoptic review of the available research on …

The fungi-to-bacteria ratio in soil ecological concepts and its application to explain the
effects of land use changes have gained increasing attention over the past decade. Four …

The interrelations between the microbial biomass, total N, organic P, and organic S in the
accumulation of soil organic C (SOC) and the contribution of fungal and bacterial residues to …

We have compared the total microbial biomass and the fungal/bacterial ratio estimated
using substrate-induced respiration (SIR) in combination with the selective inhibition …

Soil microbes regulate the transfer of carbon (C) from ecosystems to the atmosphere and in
doing so influence feedbacks between terrestrial ecosystems and global climate change …

Increasingly often soil residual concentrations of pharmaceutical antibiotics are detected,
while their ecotoxic relevance is scarcely known. Thus, dose related effects of two …

Soil salinity, as an increasingly important process of land degradation, is a major threat to
microbial communities and thus strongly alters organic matter turnover processes. This study …

Climate warming is likely to increase the frequency and severity of forest disturbances, with
uncertain consequences for soil microbial communities and their contribution to ecosystem …

Saprotrophic fungi are abundant in soils of (semi-) natural ecosystems, where they play a
major role in ecosystem functioning. On the contrary, saprotrophic fungal biomass is …

Aggregate stability often exhibits a large inter-annual and seasonal variability which occurs
regardless of residue treatments and is often larger than the differences between soils or …