1. Effects of liming and selected heavy metals on ammonium release in waterlogged agricultural soils

   • S. A. Haddad
   • M. A. Tabatabai
   • T. E. Loynachan

   Original Paper 25 November 2016 Pages: 153 - 158

   

2. Abundance and diversity of sulphur-oxidising bacteria and their role in oxidising elemental sulphur in cropping soils

   • Cuicui Zhao
   • Vadakattu V. S. R. Gupta
   • Mike J. McLaughlin

   Original Paper 01 December 2016 Pages: 159 - 169

   

3. Changes in soil microbial substrate utilization in response to altered litter diversity and precipitation in a Mediterranean shrubland

   • Ammar Shihan
   • Stephan Hättenschwiler
   • Nathalie Fromin

   Original Paper 13 December 2016 Pages: 171 - 185

   

4. Introduced earthworm species exhibited unique patterns of seasonal activity and vertical distribution, and Lumbricus terrestris burrows remained usable for at least 7 years in hardwood and pine stands

   • Lynette R. Potvin
   • Erik A. Lilleskov

   Original Paper 21 December 2016 Pages: 187 - 198

   

5. Evidence that fresh weight measurement is imprecise for reporting the effect of plant growth-promoting (rhizo)bacteria on growth promotion of crop plants

   • Ping Huang
   • Luz de-Bashan
   • Yoav Bashan

   Original Paper 23 December 2016 Pages: 199 - 208

   

6. Survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in various soil particles: importance of the attached bacterial phenotype

   • Xing Liu
   • Chunhui Gao
   • Peng Cai

   Original Paper 24 December 2016 Pages: 209 - 219

   

7. Bacterial community composition in the rhizosphere of maize cultivars widely grown in different decades

   • Xinya Wen
   • Meng Wang
   • Fu Chen

   Original Paper 27 December 2016 Pages: 221 - 229

   

8. Altered precipitation seasonality impacts the dominant fungal but rare bacterial taxa in subtropical forest soils

   • Qian Zhao
   • Shuguang Jian
   • Weijun Shen

   Original Paper 30 December 2016 Pages: 231 - 245

   

9. Effects of pH and ionic strength on elemental sulphur oxidation in soil

   • Cuicui Zhao
   • Vadakattu V. S. R. Gupta
   • Mike J. McLaughlin

   Original Paper 05 January 2017 Pages: 247 - 256

   

10. Fate of straw- and root-derived carbon in a Swedish agricultural soil

    • Abdul Ghafoor
    • Christopher Poeplau
    • Thomas Kätterer

    Original Paper Open access 07 January 2017 Pages: 257 - 267