Journal: European Journal of Soil Biology

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Eur. J. Soil Biol.

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Elsevier

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1164-5563
1778-3615

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  • Immune response in Porcellio scaber (Isopoda: Oniscidea)
    Item type: Journal Article
    Irmak, Pinar; Kurtz, Joachim; Zimmer, Martin (2005)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
  • Effects of wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) rooting on the bacterial community structure in mixed-hardwood forest soils in Switzerland
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wirthner, Sven; Frey, Beat; Busse, Matt D.; et al. (2011)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
  • Comparable bacterial-mediated nitrogen supply and losses under organic reduced tillage and conventional intensive tillage
    Item type: Journal Article
    Loaiza Puerta, Viviana; Six, Johan; Wittwer, Raphaël; et al. (2019)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
  • Soil microbial resistance and resilience to drought under organic and conventional farming
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kost, Elena; Kundel, Dominika; Feola Conz, Rafaela; et al. (2024)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
    The impacts of climate change, such as drought, can affect soil microbial communities. These communities are crucial for soil functioning and crop production. Organic and conventional cropping systems can promote distinct soil microbiomes and soil organic carbon contents, which might generate different capacities to mitigate drought effects on these cropping systems. A field-scale drought simulation was performed in long-term organically and conventionally managed cropping systems differing in fertilization and pesticide application. The soil microbiome was assessed during and after drought in bulk soil, rhizosphere, and roots of wheat. We found that drought reduced soil respiration and altered microbial community structures, affecting fungi in the bulk soil and rhizosphere more strongly than prokaryotes. Microbial communities associated with crops (i.e. rhizosphere and root) were more strongly influenced by drought compared to bulk soil communities. Drought legacy effects were observed in the bulk soil after harvesting and rewetting. The extent of the structural shifts in the soil microbiome in response to severe drought did not differ significantly between the organic and conventional cropping systems but each cropping system maintained a unique microbiome under drought. All cropping systems showed relative increases in potential plant growth-promoting genera under drought but some genera such as Streptomyces, Rhizophagus, Actinomadura, and Aneurinibacillus showed system-specific drought responses. This agricultural field study indicated that fungal communities might be less resistant to drought than prokaryotic communities in cropping systems and these effects get more pronounced in closer association with plants. Organic fertilization and the associated increase in soil organic carbon, or the reduction in pesticide application might not have the proposed ability to buffer severe drought stress on soil microbial taxonomic diversity. Yet, it remains to be elucidated whether the ability to maintain system-specific soil microbiomes also during drought translates into different functional capabilities to cope with the stress.
  • Changes in potential denitrification-derived N2O emissions following conversion of grain to greenhouse vegetable cropping systems
    Item type: Journal Article
    Cao, Jian; Lee, Juhwan; Six, Johan; et al. (2015)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
  • Compaction of forest soils with heavy logging machinery affects soil bacterial community structure
    Item type: Journal Article
    Frey, Beat; Kremer, Johann; Rüdt, Andreas; et al. (2009)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
  • Taxon-specific fungal preference for distinct soil particle size fractions
    Item type: Journal Article
    Hemkemeyer, Michael; Christensen, Bent T.; Tebbe, Christoph C.; et al. (2019)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
  • The European Journal of Soil Biology: A catalyst for soil biodiversity research
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Geisen, Stefan; Hartmann, Martin; Tebbe, Christoph C. (2021)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
  • Impact of grassland management intensity on associations between bacterial, fungal and plant communities
    Item type: Journal Article
    Mayerhofer, Johanna; Richter, Franziska; Fox, Aaron; et al. (2025)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
    Understanding co-occurrences of different taxa is of both fundamental and applied relevance, for example, to understand ecosystem processes and to design monitoring programs for above- and belowground biodiversity. Plants and microorganisms form complex, interdependent relationships, which are exposed to and may be compromised by agricultural management. Here we assessed the effect of grassland management intensities on bacterial, fungal and plant communities and their associations. We further analyzed the potential of inferring information from taxa of one community on structural changes of the other communities with the aim of potentially enhancing the efficiency of biodiversity assessments by finding common indicator taxa. For that, bacterial, fungal and plant communities as well as environmental factors were assessed in 89 grassland sites of either extensive type (no fertilization, late and infrequent cuttings) or intensive type (fertilization, early and frequent cuttings) of management in the Swiss lowlands. Bacterial, fungal and plant community structures as well as plant indicator values for soil nutrients and moisture differed between management types. Also, community homogeneity was significantly higher for all communities in the intensively managed grassland. For bacterial community structures, this was likely related to a smaller soil pH range in intensively managed grassland, while a lower fungal and plant richness may have caused more homogenous fungal and plant community structures in intensively managed grassland. Further, correlation strength among community structures dropped by 25–66 % from extensively to intensively managed grassland. Finally, indicator analysis suggested that future monitoring programs may use plant taxa to estimate expected effects on fungal communities and vice versa, but bacterial communities require additional assessment. Our results revealed a multifaceted and profound effect of management on bacterial, fungal and plant communities, which reinforces the conservation value of extensively managed grassland.
  • Environmental determinants of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal infectivity of Swiss agricultural soils
    Item type: Journal Article
    Jansa, Jan; Oberholzer, Hans-Rudolf; Egli, Simon (2009)
    European Journal of Soil Biology
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