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Biology and Fertility of Soils
Published by Springer-Verlag.
ISSN 0178-2762 / 1432-0789
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A new resazurin-based method to determine dehydrogenase activity in soil
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02052-1 Thiyagarajan Deborah Winssy, Rangasamy Anandham, Subramaniam Maragatham, Doraiswamy Uma, Subburamu Karthikeyan, Dananjeyan Balachandar · 2026
Soil storage changes enzyme activity magnitudes but preserves activity sensitivity to long-term crop rotations and tillage practices
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02048-x Chammi P. Attanayake, Katie Indorante, Ekundayo Adeleke, Maria B. Villamil, Amir Sadeghpour, Andrew J. Margenot · 2026
Plant diversity increases production by facilitating the plant and soil nutrients in subtropical grassland
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02049-w Jawad Ali Shah, Hans J. De Boeck, Meiyan Zhang, Xinghong Wang, Sajid Ali, Jianping Wu · 2026
Differential responses of soil bacterial community and respiration to plastic film and straw mulching in a maize field
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02050-3 Xiaoqi Luo, Nanping Lin, Naijiang Wang, Benhua Sun, Yunfei Tuo, Jianqiang Li, Haixin Chen, Hao Feng · 2026
Earthworm ecotypes and their assemblage shape the physical structure of constructed Technosols and plant physiology
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02051-2 J. H. R. Araujo, L. Dupont, L. Meyer, A. Pando, Thomas Z. Lerch · 2026
Management legacy effects drive soil food web resistance and resilience to climatic stress
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02044-1 Paula Lillo, Tiaré Contreras-Hernández, María del Mar Delgado, Miguel Talavera, Sara Sánchez-Moreno · 2026
Integrated straw return enhances soil multifunctionality without exacerbating greenhouse gas emissions in a rice-faba bean rotation system
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02046-z Yixuan Chen, Husen Qiu, Jiejun Xi, Kaile Zhang, Yongfu Li, Yangmin Zhong, Tingfu Liu, Bin Zhou, Qiong Liu, Zhenke Zhu, Yalin Liu, Tida Ge · 2026
Divergent responses of soil organic carbon fractions, aggregation and microbial communities to straw incorporation strategies along temporal and soil depth gradients in Mollisols
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02047-y Mengmeng Qu, Bowen Zhang, Xinyi Huang, Huancheng Pang, Han Zhang, Song Guan, Sen Dou · 2026
Reactive oxygen species in earthworm casts: a hidden driver of CO2 emissions and Fe‑associated organic carbon formation
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02045-0 Zheng Ni, Bin Jia, Tianshu Liu, Yuntao Yuan, Yanpei Li, Hanzhong Jia · 2026
Data first: making soil microbiome sequencing truly reusable
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02043-2 Michael Schloter, Stefanie Schulz, Paolo Nannipieri · 2026
Soil pH and temperature regulate nitrification inhibitor efficacy and soil microbial community responses
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02042-3 Eleftheria Bachtsevani, Christina V. Papazlatani, Konstantina Rousidou, Eleni Lampronikou, Urania Menkissoglu-Spiroudi, Constantinos Ehaliotis, Dimitrios G. Karpouzas, Evangelia S. Papadopoulou · 2026
Dynamics of soil health and microbial interactivity during 11 seasons of watermelon cropping: identifying the critical threshold for dysbiosis
DOI 10.1007/s00374-026-02040-5 Wei Fang, Yingyu Zhang, Chenfei Liang, Shuai Shao, Junhui Chen, Hua Qin, Qiufang Xu, Tongxing Wu · 2026
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