Ellen Kandeler

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated soil microbial processes in the detritusphere at the microscale by placing maize litter bags between two soil cores (each tube: 3.0 cm long, 5.6 cm diameter) and incubating at 9°C for 27 days.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of published field studies on cover crops and P cycling was conducted, focusing on plant-microbe interactions, and several distinct, simultaneous mechanisms of P benefits for the main crop were described.

TL;DR: Overall, the data suggests that in soils of low nutrient availability, the effects of climate change on the soil microbial community and processes are likely to be minimal and largely unpredicatable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the interactions between soil P availability and P nutrition strategies of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests were quantified, and it was shown that plants and microorganisms of P-rich forests carry over mineral-bound P into the biogeochemical P cycle (acquiring strategy).

TL;DR: After accounting for heterogeneity resulting from large scale differences among sampling locations and land-use types, soil properties still explain significant proportions of variation in fungal and soil fauna abundance or diversity, but soil biota was also related to processes that act at larger spatial scales and bacteria or soil yeasts only showed weak relationships to soil properties.