Biochar—charcoal used to amend land and sequester carbon—is attracting considerable
interest. Its distinctive physical/chemical/biological properties, including high water-holding …

Soil microbial biomass (MB) facilitates key ecosystem functions such as soil aggregation
and nutrient cycling and makes a substantial contribution to soil organic matter. While …

Biofilters are packed-bed bioreactors where contaminants, once transferred from the gas
phase to the biofilm, are oxidized by diverse and complex communities of attached …

We hypothesized that nematode and microbial communities vary between soil aggregate
fractions due to variations in physical and/or resource constraints associated with each …

Soil microbial community function is influenced, among other factors, by the chemical
composition of C substrates, which in turn is dependent on the overlying tree species and …

The correlation of multivariate data is a common task in investigations of soil biology and in
ecology in general. Procrustes analysis and the Mantel test are two approaches that often …

A 20-year field experiment was employed with the aim of evaluating the effect of tillage
systems on biological, chemical and physical aspects of the soil, and to establish whether …

Ecosystem degradation is one of the most pressing environmental problems in the world. Re-
vegetation is the major method in land restoration, playing an important role in improving …

Adoption of sustainable tillage can protect soils from biological degradation and maintain
soil quality, as compared with conventional management. This paper presents findings from …

Soil microbial communities play an essential role in soil carbon (C) emission and C
sequestration in forest ecosystems. However, little information is available regarding the …