Understanding of the effects of land use types on soil

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Sourced from the abstract and stated research gap of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2024 and 2026, spanning 4 journals. Those papers have been cited 77 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Soil microbial community variation among different land use types in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northern China is likely to be caused by anthropogenic activities (2024) · Frontiers in Microbiology · cited 7× · doi

  There are various types of land use in the agricultural and pastoral areas of northern China, including natural grassland and artificial grassland, scrub land, forest land and farmland, may change the soil microbial community However, the soil microbial communities in these different land use types remain poorly understood.

  generalabstract
  Keywords: land types grassland soil microbial there various agricultural pastoral areas northern china including natural artificial
• Effects of different tillage types on soil erosion in the hilly red soil region of Southeastern China (2026) · Environmental Earth Sciences · doi

  There is a lack of research on the effects of different tillage types on soil erosion in the hilly red soil region of Southeastern China. There is a need for studies that investigate the effectiveness of different tillage methods in reducing soil erosion in the region.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: there lack research effects different tillage types soil
• Topography and land management influence soil carbon heterogeneity by altering the physicochemical properties of saline–alkaline soil in Northeast China (2026) · Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems · doi

  There is a lack of understanding of the effects of land use types on soil carbon forms in Northeast China. Few studies have examined the spatial distribution of soil carbon forms in saline-alkaline soils.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: there lack understanding effects land use types soil
• Soil microbial network complexity predicts soil multifunctionality better than soil microbial diversity during grassland-farmland-shrubland conversion on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (2024) · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · cited 70× · doi

  However, few studies have focused on the responses of soil environmental factors, soil microbial properties, and links between primary productivity, soil microbes, and soil multifunctionality during land-use change in the ecologically sensitive alpine areas on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: soil focused responses environmental factors microbial properties links primary productivity microbes multifunctionality land change ecologically

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