Yahya Kooch

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 impacts of different kinds of land use/cover, i.e., virgin natural forests (VNF), degraded natural forest (DNF), alder plantation (AP), sequoia plantation (SP), improved fallow (IF) and home garden (HG) areas on soil properties in northern Iran were determined.

TL;DR: In all the studied tree species, earthworms (epigeic, anecic and endogeic) and nematodes had the highest activities in autumn while the maximum of microbial respiration was recorded in summer season.

TL;DR: Although the proposed models do not take into account possible changes due to natural and anthropogenic processes, they represent a simple way that could be used to evaluate and/or monitor the potential of each forest plantation in immobilizing organic C in soil (thus reducing atmospheric C concentration), as well as to select more appropriate species during forestation plan management at least in the north of Iran.

TL;DR: This study reveals the differential impacts of tree species on the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the topsoil and suggests that planting N 2 -fixing Alnus subcordata can help increase soil fertility in northern Iran.