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{"title":"Nitrogen and carbon addition mediate phosphorus cycling in grassland ecosystems: Insights from phoD gene abundance and community diversity","authors":"Muyu Tian ,&nbsp;Nan Jiang ,&nbsp;Zhenhua Chen ,&nbsp;Yulan Zhang ,&nbsp;Dongqi Jiang ,&nbsp;Chenran Wu ,&nbsp;Zhuoran Chen ,&nbsp;Weiwen Qiu ,&nbsp;Jingkuan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.105896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.105896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The phosphorus (P) limitation induced by global nitrogen (N) enrichment continues to affect the environmental conditions and functions in grassland ecosystems. While interactions between N and carbon (C) inputs on P cycling through phosphatase activities are commonly observed, they are seldom simultaneously addressed, especially at the molecular level. A field experiment conducted in the Inner Mongolia prairie of China investigated the impacts of varying levels of N (as 0, 25, 50, 100, 200 kg N ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹) and C (as 0, 250, 500 kg C ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹) additions on the P composition, abundance, and community structure of <em>phoD</em>-harboring bacteria and their relationships with alkaline phosphatase (AlP). Our results indicated that high N additions (N100 and N200) significantly decreased AlP activities, while lower C addition (C250) notably increased them. N additions led to reduced abundance and altered diversity of <em>phoD</em>-harboring bacterial communities, while C addition weakened the connections between individual <em>phoD</em>-harboring bacteria, ultimately affecting the secretion of AlP. Additionally, the rates of N addition exhibited significant negative correlations with soil total phosphorus (TP) and organic phosphorus (OP). The combined additions of N and C had interactive effects on soil pH and available phosphorus (AP). Structural equation modeling revealed that soil pH, C:N ratio, and C:P ratio directly and/or indirectly influenced AlP activities, with pH being the dominant factor. Moreover, OP and AP acted as substrates and products of AlP, respectively, regulating its activities through positive and negative feedback modulation mediated by <em>phoD</em> gene abundance. Furthermore, our results highlight the pivotal role of Cyanobacteria as a key phylum of <em>phoD</em>-carrying bacteria in mediating the relationship between soil pH and AlP activity. This study sheds light on the response mechanisms of AlP activities and <em>phoD</em>-harboring bacterial communities to N and C additions, providing a new perspective on the P cycling process in soils.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105896"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Large-scale organic farming enhances soil properties and earthworm communities in relation to conventional farming in the Pampas region of Argentina","authors":"M.P. Rodríguez,&nbsp;A. Domínguez,&nbsp;J.C. Bedano","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105815","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105815","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Organic farming is considered with the potential to reduce the impact on soil and its biological communities, in comparison to conventional agriculture. Organic farming primarily seeks to promote the biodiversity and functionality of soil, thereby reducing the reliance on external inputs. Earthworms have a crucial role in nutrient cycling and soil aggregation, and thus their conservation is essential in any strategy to maintain soil health and improve agricultural sustainability. In this contribution we aim to assess the differential impact of large-scale organic and conventional farming on earthworm communities and soil properties, in comparison with natural grasslands in the Pampas region of Argentina. A total of twenty-five sites were sampled, including large-scale organic (Org) and conventional (Con) non-experimental sites, and natural grasslands (Gra) used as reference. The Gra had the highest content of mineral-associated organic matter, and together with Org, had the highest content of particulate organic matter (POM) and the lowest bulk density, in comparison to Con. The highest abundance, biomass and species richness of earthworms were observed in Gra, followed by Org, and in both cases were higher than in Con. The Gra and Org showed the highest species diversity and the lowest dominance, while Con showed the opposite pattern. The earthworm communities of Gra and Org exhibited greater similarity to each other than the Con communities. A strong positive correlation was observed between soil POM and the species <em>Microscolex dubius</em> (Fletcher, 1887), <em>Aporrectodea rosea</em> (Savigny, 1826) and <em>A. trapezoides</em> (Dugès, 1828), which are primarily associated with the Gra and Org sites. The results indicate that organic farming has a positive impact on soil health, as evidenced by increases in the abundance, biomass, richness and diversity of earthworms, soil POM content and porosity, as well as preserves earthworm communities that are more similar to those of grasslands than of conventional farming. The relevance of these findings is further reinforced by the fact that the organic farms under study are large-scale farms surrounded by conventional agriculture landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105815"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identifying bacterial fixation pathway of mediating soil carbon stock changes along tropical forest restoration","authors":"Mingliu Wang ,&nbsp;Shaojun Wang ,&nbsp;Mei Lu ,&nbsp;Minkun Chen ,&nbsp;Zhe Zhang ,&nbsp;Hong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105792","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105792","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The mechanism mediating carbon accumulation changes along ropical forest restoration remains unclear. Here, we identified how functional bacteria, litter input, and abiotic variables control soil organic carbon stock changes along an age-chronosequence of tropical forest restoration. Over 51-yr recovery, significant increases in total organic carbon stocks (∼1.7 fold) were strongly associated with increases in copy number of carbon fixation bacterial genes (<em>cbbL</em>) (∼2.6 fold). The direct pathways of <em>cbbL</em> abundance, microbial and mineral-associated organic carbon explained 76 % of carbon stock variation. In contrast, litter carbon, soil water, and bulk density indirectly regulated carbon stocks through affecting <em>cbbL</em> abundance (68 %) and microbial carbon level (29 %). Furthermore, <em>cbbL</em> abundance had a higher contribution (71 %) to carbon fraction transformation than microbial carbon level (19 %). We suggest that tropical forest restoration controls carbon stocks primarily via direct bacterial fixation pathway mediated by litter carbon and physical soil variables. Our results are helpful to further understand the mechanism of tropical forest restoration regulating carbon transformation and accumulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105792"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inoculation of cadmium-tolerant bacteria mitigates the impact of cadmium pollution on soil bacterial community assembly processes","authors":"Shangqi Xu,&nbsp;Meng Na,&nbsp;Xiaoyang Xu,&nbsp;Jihai Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105825","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105825","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cadmium (Cd)-tolerant bacteria show significant potential for remediating Cd-contaminated soils, particularly in plant-microbe combined remediation. However, their effects on soil microbial communities, especially community assembly processes remain largely unexplored. To address this, we conducted an experiment inoculating two strains of Cd-tolerant bacteria in combination with <em>Lolium perenne</em> cultivation, in soils with varying Cd contamination levels. We investigated the effects of both Cd-tolerant bacteria and Cd pollution on bacterial communities, with a focus on the different responses of rare and abundant subcommunities. Our results indicated that Cd pollution exhibited more pronounced impacts on bacterial communities than Cd-tolerant bacteria incubation. Cd pollution significantly reduced alpha diversity and altered community structure, while incubation with Cd-tolerant bacteria showed minimal effects on both alpha and beta diversity. Cd pollution also resulted in a higher number of indicator species compared to inoculation treatments. However, inoculation with Cd-tolerant bacteria exerted effects contrasting with those of Cd pollution on bacterial community assembly processes. Specifically, the inoculation strengthened the networks of the abundant community while weakening those of the rare community, enhanced stochastic processes in community assembly, alleviated dispersal limitation, and expanded niche breadth – all effects opposite to those induced by Cd pollution. These results demonstrate that Cd-tolerant bacteria can mitigate the detrimental effects of Cd pollution on soil microorganisms, primarily by modulating bacterial community assembly processes. In addition, the distinct responses of the abundant and rare subcommunities underscore their unique assembly dynamics and adaptive strategies. This study offers valuable insights into the role of Cd-tolerant bacteria in shaping soil bacterial communities, providing foundations for optimizing plant-microbe combined remediation strategies for Cd-contaminated soils.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105825"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Latitudinal patterns and phosphorus-driven regulation of abundant and rare fungal communities in coastal wetlands","authors":"Shaokun Wang ,&nbsp;Jing Li ,&nbsp;Lijuan Cui ,&nbsp;Rumiao Wang ,&nbsp;Wei Li ,&nbsp;Juntao Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105855","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105855","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fungal community typically consist of a few abundant and numerous rare taxa, both of which are crucial for supporting plant growth and maintaining ecosystem functions in coastal wetlands. However, the biogeographic patterns and the ecological drivers of abundant and rare fungi remain elusive, hampering our understanding of their functional roles in these ecosystems. Here, we studied the latitudinal patterns of abundant and rare fungi and their determinants via a large-scale investigation (over 2500 km) in coastal wetlands across eastern China. Abundant and rare fungi exhibited distinct latitudinal patterns. The relative abundance of abundant fungi increased with increasing latitude, whereas the diversity and relative abundance of rare fungi decreased with increasing latitude. Multiple regression models revealed that spatial factor (latitude) predominantly determined the variation of both subcommunities; soil traits had a greater influence on abundant fungi, whereas plant traits were more influential on rare fungi. After accounting for the spatial and climatic factors in the structural equation models, our results further showed that soil C:P, N:P drive abundant fungi, while root N:P drive rare fungi. Taken together, our study revealed the differentiated responses of abundant and rare fungi to soil and root P, highlighting the importance of plant-fungi interactions on biogeographic pattern of soil fungi in coastal wetland ecosystems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105855"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toxicological effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) on earthworms: Progress and prospects","authors":"Cheng Qin ,&nbsp;Chenxi Lu ,&nbsp;Chang Lu ,&nbsp;Lixia Zhao ,&nbsp;Xiaojing Li ,&nbsp;Yang Sun ,&nbsp;Liping Weng ,&nbsp;Yongtao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105853","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105853","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As a class of emerging persistent organic pollutants (POPs), per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are widely detected in the soil environment, posing a significant threat to the soil ecosystem and human health. Therefore, it is necessary to study the ecotoxicological effects of PFASs in soil. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive review of the toxic effects of PFASs on earthworms at the individual and sub-individual levels, including survival status, body weight, reproduction, oxidative damage, genes, metabolism, and so on. Results showed that earthworms exposed to certain concentrations of PFASs display various pathological symptoms on their body surfaces, a decrease in body weight and reproductive rate, and even death. The LC₅₀ values of PFOS to earthworms (365–1404 mg/kg) are consistently lower than those of PFOA (544–1307 mg/kg) under the same exposure condition, indicating a higher toxicity of PFOS compared to PFOA. At the sub-individual level, PFASs may induce oxidative stress, DNA damage, aberrant gene expression, and metabolic disruption in earthworms. PFOS induced disruption of the nervous and metabolic system, PFHxS disrupted energy balance and elicited inflammation, and PFBS induced cell apoptosis in earthworms. Compared to PFOS, PFHxS may induce a greater degree of oxidative stress and damage, and 6:2 Cl-PFESA (F<img>53B) exhibited a greater propensity to disrupt the extracellular matrix and induce cellular ferroptosis and apoptosis in earthworms. At environmentally relevant concentration levels, PFOA induces significant dysregulation of pathways related to amino acid, energy, and sulfur metabolisms within earthworms. Bioavailability and bioaccumulation capacity of PFASs are important factors in determining their toxicological effects in soil, which is influenced by the molecular structure of PFASs and the combined effects of various environmental factors, such as soil organic matter composition and content, pH, PFAS concentrations and exposure duration. Finally, existing research deficiencies and future directions about the toxicological research of PFASs on earthworms are proposed, aiming to offer reference for ecological risk assessment of PFASs-contaminated soil.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105853"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Organic matter evolution and microbial activity in a vineyard soil after four years of inter-row cover crop management","authors":"Arianna De Bernardi ,&nbsp;Enrica Marini ,&nbsp;Francesca Tagliabue ,&nbsp;Gianluca Brunetti ,&nbsp;Cristiano Casucci ,&nbsp;Überson Boaretto Rossa ,&nbsp;Oriana Silvestroni ,&nbsp;Costantino Vischetti","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.105868","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.105868","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Conservation agriculture approaches are rarely applied to viticulture in central Italy due to some research gaps persisting in this sector that somehow reflect ineffective extension programs and activities. This work analysed the effects on soil health and fertility of two inter-row vineyard management strategies carried out for 4 consecutive years: an annual legume cover crop of Egyptian clover (<em>Trifolium alexandrinum</em> L.) and a permanent meadow with spontaneous species. The inter-rows of the two tested strategies were compared with an adjacent uncultivated soil that had been left untilled for 20 years (control soil). The short-term (4 years) impacts of these techniques on the different soil organic carbon forms and on the soil microbial activity were measured at two soil depths (0–20 cm and 20–40 cm). Soil analyses included total and extractable organic carbon, humic and fulvic acids, microbial biomass carbon, respiration and some enzyme tests. The final aim was to evaluate if four years of soil cover could enhance the stabilisation of the soil organic carbon stock and increase the growth and activity of soil microbial biomass.</div><div>The permanent meadow showed a topsoil organic carbon content significantly higher than the annual legume cover, and both management soils showed an organic carbon content higher than the control soil. The topsoil humic acid content of the annual legume cover was significantly higher than both the permanent meadow and control, indicating that legume management stored the soil organic carbon in a more stable form. The microbial biomass carbon and the soil respiration of the annual legume cover topsoil were significantly higher than those of the permanent meadow. Regarding the enzyme activities, β-glucosidase and the enzymes related to the nitrogen cycle were significantly higher in the two managements than in the control, while phosphatase activity was not influenced by the two managements.</div><div>The results indicate that soil cover in the inter-row of vineyard increases the stable form of soil organic carbon, with variations according to the type of cover adopted. Even the effects on soil microbial biomass growth and activity were positive, especially for the activities related to the carbon and nitrogen cycles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105868"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of agricultural plastic films on crop growth and soil health in tobacco fields: A comparative study","authors":"Hao Xia ,&nbsp;Jia Shen ,&nbsp;Muhammad Riaz ,&nbsp;Fafen Ran ,&nbsp;Tingming Cheng ,&nbsp;Xueying Wang ,&nbsp;Qing Dong ,&nbsp;Chaolong Zu ,&nbsp;Bo Liu ,&nbsp;Saba Babar ,&nbsp;Chaoqiang Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105795","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105795","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, the impact of microplastics on soil microorganisms and crop growth has gained significant attention. However, the effects of agricultural plastic films on crop growth and soil health in tobacco fields are not clear. In our study, we conducted field experiments to investigate the effects of six types of agricultural film treatments on soil fertility, soil microbial community, and plant growth. Compositions of study treatments were as follows: T1: farmhouse film; T2: photodegradation film; T3: black film (6 μm); T4: black film (8 μm); T5: transparent film (6 μm); T6: transparent film (8 μm). Our results showed that photodegradable film treatment was beneficial for promoting crop growth and root development. The fresh stem biomass, dry root biomass, and dry stem biomass were significantly increased by 14.58 %, 68.70 %, and 18.27 %, respectively, under the T2 treatment, when compared to the T1 treatment. In addition, our results showed that photodegradation film treatment maintained soil pH value, compared with other agricultural film treatments. The application of photodegradation film treatment offered advantageous effects in the preservation of soil moisture and temperature. In addition, the diversity of soil microorganisms improved with photodegradable film. Compared to T1 treatment, the number of OTUs of bacteria and fungi improved by 1.94–7.64 % and 7.39–30.08 % under other treatments, respectively. Furthermore, our study showed that pH emerged as the paramount environmental determinant. The number of subnetworks treated with photodegradable film significantly increased, indicating a more complex and stable functional diversity of soil microbial communities. Additionally, compared to bacteria, fungal communities exhibited greater adaptability and stability. The results of this study support the view that photodegradable film can be employed, as it can to enhance crop yield, improve soil quality, maintain a favorable ecological environment, and mitigate the adverse environmental impact of microplastics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105795"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Complementary nitrogen use by legume and grass enhances plant productivity irrespective of earthworm species","authors":"Linlin Zhong ,&nbsp;Jing-Zhong Lu ,&nbsp;Stefan Scheu ,&nbsp;Melanie M. Pollierer","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105834","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105834","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Plant mixtures typically lead to higher productivity compared to monocultures. Yet, most studies on plant mixtures focus on aboveground interactions, while little attention is given to interactions below the ground. Earthworms are key components of the belowground subsystem and are closely associated with plant roots; however, how different earthworm species affect the direction and strength of plant mixture - productivity relationships remains largely unclear. We conducted a microcosm study including monoculture legume, monoculture grass and legume-grass mixture as well as five earthworm species. To specifically focus on earthworm - plant root interactions, leaf litter was excluded from the microcosms. Plant mixtures increased the productivity of both legumes and grasses by 3.56 g (65.0 %) and 0.60 g (139.5 %) dry mass per plant individual, respectively, likely due to the complementary nitrogen use by legumes and grasses [10.20 g (58.0 %) and 0.43 g (173.6 %) higher total amount of nitrogen in individual plants in mixture, respectively], but potentially also due to less competition for other resources such as light and water, particularly for legumes, as also supported by a lower microbial water stress indicator (cy/pre, ratio of cyclopropyl phospholipid fatty acids to its monoenoic precursors) in plant mixture. In addition, grasses enhanced the microbial activity as shown by higher microbial specific respiration (10.24 ± 0.34, 11.44 ± 0.44 and 12.30 ± 0.42 μl O₂ mg⁻¹ C_mic h⁻¹ for the legume, grass and mixture treatments, respectively), thereby maximizing nitrogen uptake in plant mixtures. While the increase in plant growth was rather uniform, earthworm species differentially affected nitrogen uptake of both legumes and grasses, with <em>Allolobophora chlorotica</em> facilitating nitrogen uptake of plants more than other earthworm species, especially in grass monocultures [0.09 g (35.5 %) higher amount of total nitrogen in individual plants in presence of <em>A. chlorotica</em> compared to other earthworm species]. Overall, our study highlights the general importance of plant mixtures for sustainable agriculture, but also points to earthworm-specific effects on plant nitrogen uptake that can mitigate the poor performance of grass monocultures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105834"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quality review enhances the benefits of data publication for soil biodiversity conservation","authors":"David J. Russell","doi":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.105893","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.105893","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Science is in the midst of a paradigm change emphasizing open data sharing and re-use. Many benefits result from data sharing, e.g. advancing science, increasing visibility of individual research, and allowing synthesis efforts such as meta-analyses and broad-scale modelling. Nonetheless, data sharing is still not popular due to the lack of time, funding or data-science skills needed to prepare data for deposit as well as poor institutional data policies or support. Therefore, when faced with formal obligations to share data, researchers will often take the “path of least resistance”, not taking the effort to fully document, harmonize and integrate their data, which severely hinders data re-use.</div><div>Advanced data standardization, harmonization and integration in publicly available databases – coupled with quality-review procedures – are needed to alleviate the barriers to the re-use of research data for soil-biodiversity policy, protection and conservation. Edaphobase, a publicly available data warehouse specifically oriented towards soil-biodiversity data has been explicitly developed to address these needs, and offers solution examples for the above-mentioned challenges. For instance, concerns of data providers regarding data misuse are addressed in that conditions on data re-use can be placed, temporary embargos to public access be imposed, or citable digital object identifiers (DOIs) be received for citing individual data sets. A particularly valuable example concerns Edaphobase's extensive quality-review procedures. These follow a three-step process which eases and highly enhances data standardization, harmonization, and integration and thus re-use possibilities: an automated tool during data-upload (“pre-import control”), a manual peer-review after data submission (“peri-import review”) and a final semi-automated final review by the data provider within the system itself (“post-import control”). However, to further advance the paradigm change towards open data publication with its scientific and conservational benefits, still needed are improved institutional or academic policies promoting open data sharing as well as the development of more “intrinsic” incentives and rewards to motivate data submissions to publicly available databases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8099,"journal":{"name":"Applied Soil Ecology","volume":"206 ","pages":"Article 105893"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143131942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}