Antibiotics in the soil environment—degradation and their impact on microbial activity and diversity

M Cycoń, A Mrozik, Z Piotrowska-Seget - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotics play a key role in the management of infectious diseases in humans, animals,
livestock, and aquacultures all over the world. The release of increasing amount of …

Biogenic volatile emissions from the soil

J Peñuelas, D Asensio, D Tholl, K Wenke… - Plant, cell & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Volatile compounds are usually associated with an appearance/presence in the
atmosphere. Recent advances, however, indicated that the soil is a huge reservoir and …

Competitive interaction with keystone taxa induced negative priming under biochar amendments

L Chen, Y Jiang, C Liang, Y Luo, Q Xu, C Han, Q Zhao… - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background Biochar amendments have been widely proposed as a conventional and
efficient strategy to promote soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration via negative priming …

Soil moisture is the major factor influencing microbial community structure and enzyme activities across seven biogeoclimatic zones in western Canada

BFT Brockett, CE Prescott, SJ Grayston - Soil biology and biochemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
Although soil microorganisms play a central role in the soil processes that determine nutrient
availability and productivity of forest ecosystems, we are only beginning to understand how …

[HTML][HTML] Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?

EJBN Cardoso, RLF Vasconcellos, D Bini… - Scientia …, 2013 - SciELO Brasil
Soil Health refers to the ecological equilibrium and the functionality of a soil and its capacity
to maintain a well balanced ecosystem with high biodiversity above and below surface, and …

Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward

OL Petchey, KJ Gaston - Ecology letters, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Functional diversity is a component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of
things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems. Here, we review how functional …

Structural, metabolic, and functional characteristics of soil microbial communities in response to benzo [a] pyrene stress

M Yi, L Zhang, Y Li, Y Qian - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the characteristics of soil microbes responding to benzo [a] pyrene (BaP)
helps to deepen the knowledge of the risks of BaP to soil ecosystem. In this study, the …

Emerging concepts in temporary‐river ecology

ST Larned, T Datry, DB Arscott, K Tockner - Freshwater Biology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Temporary rivers and streams are among the most common and most hydrologically
dynamic freshwater ecosystems. The number of temporary rivers and the severity of flow …

Effects of agricultural intensification on soil biodiversity and implications for ecosystem functioning: a meta-analysis

MA de Graaff, N Hornslein, HL Throop, P Kardol… - Advances in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental perturbations such as agricultural intensification may alter soil biodiversity in
a manner that affects ecosystem functioning, but links are not well quantified. With this …

P for two, sharing a scarce resource: soil phosphorus acquisition in the rhizosphere of intercropped species

P Hinsinger, E Betencourt, L Bernard… - Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Over the last 50 years, the use of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilizers has increased
at a faster rate than global food production, resulting in substantial decreases of N and P …