{"title":"A new resazurin-based method to determine dehydrogenase activity in soil","authors":"Thiyagarajan Deborah Winssy,Rangasamy Anandham,Subramaniam Maragatham,Doraiswamy Uma,Subburamu Karthikeyan,Dananjeyan Balachandar","doi":"10.1007/s00374-026-02052-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02052-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9210,"journal":{"name":"Biology and Fertility of Soils","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149021078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chammi P. Attanayake,Katie Indorante,Ekundayo Adeleke,Maria B. Villamil,Amir Sadeghpour,Andrew J. Margenot
{"title":"Soil storage changes enzyme activity magnitudes but preserves activity sensitivity to long-term crop rotations and tillage practices","authors":"Chammi P. Attanayake,Katie Indorante,Ekundayo Adeleke,Maria B. Villamil,Amir Sadeghpour,Andrew J. Margenot","doi":"10.1007/s00374-026-02048-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02048-x","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Soil samples are often stored prior to enzyme activity assays, but storage-induced changes could compromise the ability to differentiate activities among management practices. We used two field experiments in north-central USA – 27 y crop rotation × tillage on an Endoaquoll-Argiudoll and 53 y tillage on an Endoaqualf – to quantify the effects of storage by refrigeration (4 °C), freezing (-20 °C) and air-drying (≈ 24 °C) over 24 mo on activities and sensitivity of activities to field treatments relative to field-fresh soils (≤ 3 d at 4 °C) for β-glucosidase (BG), N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase (NAG), acid phosphomonoesterase (acid PME), alkaline PME, and arylsulfatase (SUL). Storage effects and in particular storage duration generally exceeded field treatment effects on activities. Depending on the enzyme, activities fluctuated irregularly across storage duration from + 220% to -90% relative to field-fresh soils. Sensitivity of enzyme activity to field treatments increased or decreased irregularly across duration on both Endoaquoll-Argiudoll and Endoaqualf compared to field-fresh soils. Higher NAG activity under maize-maize than soybean-soybean was well preserved in frozen and air-dried soils, and to some extent in refrigerated soils. Higher SUL activity under no‑tillage than chisel tillage on the Endoaquoll-Argiudoll was preserved across all storage methods. In the Endoaqualf, differentiation between no-tillage and moldboard tillage by BG, NAG, acid PME, and SUL activities was maintained in stored soils. Despite substantial changes in activities and sensitivity to field treatments, storing soils by refrigeration, freezing, or air‑drying for up to 24 mo preserves the ability to distinguish activities among contrasting crop rotation and tillage in representative soil types of north-central USA.","PeriodicalId":9210,"journal":{"name":"Biology and Fertility of Soils","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148934010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jawad Ali Shah,Hans J. De Boeck,Meiyan Zhang,Xinghong Wang,Sajid Ali,Jianping Wu
{"title":"Plant diversity increases production by facilitating the plant and soil nutrients in subtropical grassland","authors":"Jawad Ali Shah,Hans J. De Boeck,Meiyan Zhang,Xinghong Wang,Sajid Ali,Jianping Wu","doi":"10.1007/s00374-026-02049-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02049-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9210,"journal":{"name":"Biology and Fertility of Soils","volume":"110 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148894608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differential responses of soil bacterial community and respiration to plastic film and straw mulching in a maize field","authors":"Xiaoqi Luo, Nanping Lin, Naijiang Wang, Benhua Sun, Yunfei Tuo, Jianqiang Li, Haixin Chen, Hao Feng","doi":"10.1007/s00374-026-02050-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02050-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9210,"journal":{"name":"Biology and Fertility of Soils","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148883573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. H. R. Araujo, L. Dupont, L. Meyer, A. Pando, Thomas Z. Lerch
{"title":"Earthworm ecotypes and their assemblage shape the physical structure of constructed Technosols and plant physiology","authors":"J. H. R. Araujo, L. Dupont, L. Meyer, A. Pando, Thomas Z. Lerch","doi":"10.1007/s00374-026-02051-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02051-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9210,"journal":{"name":"Biology and Fertility of Soils","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148883877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paula Lillo, Tiaré Contreras-Hernández, María del Mar Delgado, Miguel Talavera, Sara Sánchez-Moreno
{"title":"Management legacy effects drive soil food web resistance and resilience to climatic stress","authors":"Paula Lillo, Tiaré Contreras-Hernández, María del Mar Delgado, Miguel Talavera, Sara Sánchez-Moreno","doi":"10.1007/s00374-026-02044-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02044-1","url":null,"abstract":"Soil organisms’ response to climate change largely depends on soil management practices and resulting soil organic carbon levels. Conservation agriculture practices (e.g., no-tillage and crop diversification) have been shown to protect soil organisms, improve micro-food webs, maintain soil structure and enhance carbon sequestration compared to conventional practices, potentially improving soil resistance and resilience to climate change. In a greenhouse experiment, we assessed the legacy effects of contrasting long-term soil management practices (conventional tillage/no-tillage in monoculture/rotation systems) on resilience and resistance to warming and drought of soil microbial functions, microfaunal food webs, and crop performance in dryland soils. Our results demonstrate that under extreme weather conditions, no-till legacy and crop rotation enhances soil biota resistance and resilience to drought and warming by enhancing soil organic carbon and water-holding capacity. There is a trade-off between resistance and resilience, and while microbial functions, generalist bacterivores, and fungivores show resistance (and no resilience) to climatic stress, opportunistic bacterivores and upper soil micro-food web levels show resilience (but no resistance) instead. Increased soil organic carbon levels derived from no-tillage practices were only partially responsible for the observed soil responses, suggesting that other soil properties derived from management history determine soil organisms’ resistance and resilience to climate change.","PeriodicalId":9210,"journal":{"name":"Biology and Fertility of Soils","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148842946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reactive oxygen species in earthworm casts: a hidden driver of CO2 emissions and Fe‑associated organic carbon formation","authors":"Zheng Ni, Bin Jia, Tianshu Liu, Yuntao Yuan, Yanpei Li, Hanzhong Jia","doi":"10.1007/s00374-026-02045-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02045-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9210,"journal":{"name":"Biology and Fertility of Soils","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148768987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mengmeng Qu, Bowen Zhang, Xinyi Huang, Huancheng Pang, Han Zhang, Song Guan, Sen Dou
{"title":"Divergent responses of soil organic carbon fractions, aggregation and microbial communities to straw incorporation strategies along temporal and soil depth gradients in Mollisols","authors":"Mengmeng Qu, Bowen Zhang, Xinyi Huang, Huancheng Pang, Han Zhang, Song Guan, Sen Dou","doi":"10.1007/s00374-026-02047-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02047-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9210,"journal":{"name":"Biology and Fertility of Soils","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148768988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Schloter, Stefanie Schulz, Paolo Nannipieri
{"title":"Data first: making soil microbiome sequencing truly reusable","authors":"Michael Schloter, Stefanie Schulz, Paolo Nannipieri","doi":"10.1007/s00374-026-02043-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-026-02043-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9210,"journal":{"name":"Biology and Fertility of Soils","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148690896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}