Microbial Mechanisms of Soil Nutrient Cycles in Agricultural Systems
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Systems and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2022) | Viewed by 330
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil science; soil aggregate stability, soil carbon and nitrogen cycle; soil microbial carbon sequestration
Interests: soil C & N cycling; greenhouse gas emission in cropping system; carbon sequestration; soil microbial community structure and function; cover cropping; management practices in dryland cropping systems; crop production; soil fertility; sustainable agriculture
Interests: soil carbon cycle; soil microbial ecology; utilization of soil microbes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microbes are the most diverse organisms on earth, which play critical roles in maintaining ecosystem multifunctionality, such as nutrient cycling, litter decomposition, primary production, climate regulation, biodiversity, etc. However, how soil microbes regulate biogeochemical functions remains one of the fundamental challenges for understanding terrestrial ecosystems under the changing environment.
A few questions remain to be answered:
- How is microbial diversity sustained?
- How do microbial functional traits scale up to ecosystem-level functions?
- How do microbial structure and function respond to global change?
- How do microbial mechanisms vary over time and across space?
The aims of this Special Issue are to describe and explain the fundamental microbial features and processes occurring in soil systems. This Special Issue encourages submissions with mechanisms of microbes in regulating soil biogeochemical functions in a changing world. The ecological and biochemical processes of soil microorganisms under global change are major topics, including carbon and nutrient cycles under climate change, nitrogen deposition, land-use change, elevated carbon dioxide, etc. The applications of new molecular techniques to exploring the microbe population and community dynamics are of great interest. Experimental or modeling studies addressing cutting-edge microbial questions from site scale to global scale are also welcome.
Dr. Fazhu Zhao
Prof. Dr. Jun Wang
Dr. Chengjie Ren
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbes
- nutrient cycling
- soil biogeochemical functions
- global change
- nitrogen deposition
- agricultural system
