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European Journal of Soil Biology EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.1 • Impact Factor p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.5 ISSN: 1164-5563 DESCRIPTION . The European Journal of Soil Biology covers all aspects of soil biology which deal with microbial and faunal ecology and activity in soils, as well as natural ecosystems or biomes connected to ecological interests: biodiversity, biological conservation, adaptation, impact of global changes on soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and effects and fate of pollutants as influenced by soil organisms. Different levels in ecosystem structure are taken into account: individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems themselves. At each level, different disciplinary approaches are welcomed: molecular biology, genetics, ecophysiology, ecology, biogeography and landscape ecology. Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services. Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center AUDIENCE . Ecologists, Soil Microbiologists, Soil Zoologists, Entomologists, Soil Scientists. IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 2.846 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 26 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/ejsobi 1 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Research Alert EMBiology Current Contents - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences Engineering Village - GEOBASE Chemical Abstracts Biosciences Web of Science Science Citation Index Expanded Elsevier BIOBASE Scopus EDITORIAL BOARD . Editors-in-Chief Stefan Geisen, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands Soil biodiversity, Protists, Nematodes, Trophic interactions, Plant-soil interactions Martin Hartmann, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Molecular microbial ecology, Soil biodiversity, Bacteria and fungi, Metagenomics, Bioinformatics Editors Natacha Bodenhausen, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Department of Soil Sciences, Frick, Switzerland Plant-microbe interactions, Rhizosphere, Microbial biodiversity, Organic agriculture, Mycorrhiza Thibaud Decaëns, Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Montpellier, France soil fauna, community ecology, macroecology, biogeography, conservation biology, DNA barcoding Bryan Griffiths, Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Nematodes, Resilience, Soil biodiversity, Soil food web, Soil health Kadri Koorem, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia Plant-soil interactions, community ecology, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, mycorrhiza, soil biodiversity Kelly Ramirez, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America Soil ecology, terrestrial microbiomes, global change, dryland systems Stefan Schrader, Johann Heinrich von Thunen Institute of Biodiversity, Braunschweig, Germany Soil biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Earthworms, Agro-ecosystems, Soil functions Xingliang Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China carbon sequestration, carbon and nitrogen transformation, CO2 fluxes, N2O emission, grassland degradation, plant-microbial interactions, plant-plant interactions, plant nitrogen acquisition, priming effects, rhizosphere ecology, stable and radioactive isotopes Honorary Editor-in-Chief Christoph C Tebbe, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas Forestry and Fisheries, Braunschweig, Germany Editorial Board Roey Angel, Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czechia Anaerobic microbiology, Atmospheric gasses, Biological soil crust, Redox, Arthropod gut Doreen Babin, Julius Kühn-Institut Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Quedlinburg, Germany Soil microbial ecology, Plant-microbial interactions, Farming systems, Plant/soil health, Amplicon sequencing Matthew Alan Back, Harper Adams University College Department of Crop and Environment Sciences, Newport, United Kingdom Plant parasitic nematodes, Biofumigation, Non-chemical management methods, Nematode-fungus disease complexes Mohammad Bahram, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Department of Ecology, Uppsala, Sweden Biogeography, Microbial ecology, Soil microbiome, Fungal ecology, Symbiosis Janna Barel, Laboratory of Functional Ecology and Environment, Castanet Tolosan, France Plant-soil interaction, Microbial food webs, Carbon cycling, Decomposition, Trait-based ecology Felipe Bastida, Center for Edaphology and Applied Biology of the Segura River, Murcia, Spain Agriculture, Soil biodiversity, Nutrient cycles, Soil restoration, Semiarid soils Nataliya Bilyera, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 26 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/ejsobi 2 Soil-plant-microbial interactions, Rhizosphere, Soil enzymes, Soil imaging methods, Microbial hotspots Evgenia Blagodatskaya, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany Microbial growth, Enzyme kinetics, Energy &, carbon use efficiency, Soil priming effects, Plant – microbial interactions Sergey Blagodatsky, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Microbial biomass and activity, Greenhouse gases, Ecological modeling, Soil ecology, Nitrogen cycle Eric Blanchart, Institute of Development Research Occitanie Regional Delegation, Montpellier, France Soil ecology, Earthworms, Ecological soil functions, Agroecology, Tropics Giulia Bongiorno, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands Soil functions, Soil biodiversity, Management practices, Soil health, Biological indicators Fiona Brennan, Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority Environment, Soils and Land-Use Research Department, Wexford, Ireland Soil biodiversity, Soil microbiome, plant-soil-microbe interactions, Agricultural practice, Microbial functioning Marc Buée, National Research Institute for Agriculture Food and Environment Grand-Est Nancy Centre, Champenoux, France Fungal ecology, Mycorrhizal symbiosis, Forest soil, Metagenomics, Organic matter Kevin Richard Butt, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom Restoration Ecology, Agroecosystems, Earthworms, Earthworm culture, Earthworm behaviour Antonis Chatzinotas, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany Microbial ecology, Protist, Virus, predatory bacteria, Microbial interactions Florine Degrune, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Delemont, Switzerland Soil microbiome, Soil biodiversity, Agriculture, Predictive modelling, Metabarcoding Timo Domisch, Natural Resources Institute Finland, HELSINKI, Finland Plant-soil interactions, Tree roots, Soil carbon and nutrient fluxes, Wood ants, Tree ecophysiology Aline Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Birmensdorf, Switzerland Microbial ecology, Microbial functions, Soil, Desert, Arctic, Bacteria, Fungi Jan Frouz, Charles University, Prague, Czechia Soil fauna, Nutrient cycling, Invertebrate microbial interactions, Restoration, Ecosystem ecology Osnat Gillor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel Arid soil, Biocrust, Treated wastewater irrigation, Water-soil-crop continuum Ron de Goede, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands Nematodes, Earthworms, Soil quality indicators, Soil food web-nutrient cycling, Multivariate statistics Anna Gunina, University of Kassel Department of Environmental Chemistry, Witzenhausen, Germany soil organic matter, C, N and P isotope labelling, Microbial biomarkers, Agriculture and forest soils, Plant-soil interactions Thierry J. Heger, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Delemont, Switzerland Biomonitoring, Protists, Soil microbial diversity, High-throughput environmental sequencing, Vineyard and agricultural soils Yuji Jiang, State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Nanjing, China Multi-trophic interaction, Community assembly, soil animal functioning, Soil health Rainer G. Joergensen, University of Kassel Department of Soil Biology and Plant Nutrition, Witzenhausen, Germany Soil microbial biomass, Microbial stoichiometry, Microbial necromass, Decomposition, Plant-soil interactions Matthias Kästner, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany Microbial compound turnover and fluxes, Soil organic matter, Degradation of organic contaminants Valentyna Krashevska, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Testate amoebae, Functional traits, Tropical land uses, Decomposition, Microbial communities Sascha M. B. Krause, East China Normal University College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai, China Methanotrophs, Ecosystem function, Community interactions, Biogeochemical transformations, Rare earth metal microbiology Claire Le Bayon, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchatel, Switzerland Soil biodiversity, Ecosystem engineers, Earthworms, Humus forms Tengxiang Lian, South China Agricultural University College of Agriculture, Guangzhou, China Microbe-host interactions, Biotic and abiotic stresses, Metagenomic sequencing, Bioinformatics, Synthetic communities Ning Ling, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China Soil microbiota, Soil C/N cycling, plant nutrition, Rhizosphere, Bio-fertilizer Junjie Liu, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology Chinese Academy of Sciences,
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