Armand W. Koné

TL;DR: It was found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms, which suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of forest conversion to full-sun cocoa plantations on above and below ground biodiversity along with soil quality by measuring chemical, physical and biological parameters along a chronosequence of different ages (5, 10 and 20 years).

TL;DR: This is one of the first studies linking nitrifying and denitrifying activities and the abundances of the involved groups of microorganisms in savanna soils and suggests that all dominant grasses inhibit nitrification while trees stimulate nitrification, and that archaea are probably more involved in nitrification than bacteria in this savanna.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine changes in the quality of soil cultivated with herbaceous legume cover crops as a function of initial soil characteristics, and conclude that soil quality improvement under cover crops appears to be faster when the initial soil organic C, total nitrogen, total N and P contents are adequate.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the establishment of C. odorata in a savanna land and its subsequent high biomass and quality-litter production were mostly the reasons of the improvement in soil biology and plant nutrient availability.