1. Use of quantitative PCR with the chloroplast gene rps4 to determine moss abundance in the early succession stage of biological soil crusts

   • Songqiang Deng
   • Chunzi Wang
   • Lanzhou Chen

   Short Communication 23 March 2016 Pages: 595 - 599

   

2. Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium and N₂O flux: effect of soil redox potential and N fertilization in loblolly pine forests

   • K. J. Minick
   • C. B. Pandey
   • Santosh Subedi

   Original Paper 01 March 2016 Pages: 601 - 614

   

3. Microbial utilization of rice root exudates: ¹³C labeling and PLFA composition

   • Hongzhao Yuan
   • Zhenke Zhu
   • Yakov Kuzyakov

   Original Paper 01 March 2016 Pages: 615 - 627

   

4. Soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity in agricultural and afforested poplar plantation systems in northern Alberta

   • Scott X. Chang
   • Zheng Shi
   • Barb R. Thomas

   Original Paper 07 March 2016 Pages: 629 - 641

   

5. Changes in the composition of native root arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities during a short-term cover crop-maize succession

   • Alessandra Turrini
   • Cristiana Sbrana
   • Manuela Giovannetti

   Original Paper 16 March 2016 Pages: 643 - 653

   

6. Bacteria play a more important role than nutrients in the accumulation of tetracycline resistance in manure-treated soil

   • Shuang Peng
   • Beibei Zhou
   • Cunpu Qiu

   Original Paper 23 March 2016 Pages: 655 - 663

   

7. Biological nitrogen fixation and its response to nitrogen input in two mature tropical plantations with and without legume trees

   • Mianhai Zheng
   • Hao Chen
   • Jiangming Mo

   Original Paper 06 April 2016 Pages: 665 - 674

   

8. Impact of land use and nutrient addition on phosphatase activities and their relationships with organic phosphorus turnover in semi-arid grassland soils

   • Jihui Tian
   • Kai Wei
   • Lijun Chen

   Original Paper 11 April 2016 Pages: 675 - 683

   

9. Microbial immobilisation of phosphorus in soils exposed to drying-rewetting and freeze-thawing cycles

   • Ilya Yevdokimov
   • Alla Larionova
   • Evgenia Blagodatskaya

   Original Paper 13 April 2016 Pages: 685 - 696

   

10. The impact of long-term liming on soil organic carbon and aggregate stability in low-input acid soils

    • Nang Seng Aye
    • Peter W. G. Sale
    • Caixian Tang

    Original Paper 18 April 2016 Pages: 697 - 709

    

11. Stage-specific response of litter decomposition to N and S amendments in a subtropical forest soil

    • Yehong Xu
    • Jianling Fan
    • Nanthi Bolan

    Original Paper 19 April 2016 Pages: 711 - 724

    

12. Distribution, diversity and population composition of soybean-nodulating bradyrhizobia from different agro-climatic regions in Ethiopia

    • Sanjay K. Jaiswal
    • Semira M. Beyan
    • Felix D. Dakora

    Original Paper 20 April 2016 Pages: 725 - 738

    

13. Simulating the effects of soil temperature and moisture in the off-rice season on rice straw decomposition and subsequent CH₄ production during the growth season in a paddy soil

    • Shuirong Tang
    • Weiguo Cheng
    • Xingkai Xu

    Original Paper 21 April 2016 Pages: 739 - 748