Special Issue on Soil Ecology and Sustainability for Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of ISSCAS

1. Preface:Special issue on soil ecology and sustainability for celebrating the 70thanniversary of ISSCAS
2. Developing the new soil science-Advice for early-career soil scientists
3. Biophotoelectrochemistry:An emerging frontier for channeling photoelectric effect into darkness zone of soils and sediments
4. Balancing machine learning and artificial intelligence in soil science with human perspective and experience
5. Soils in extraterrestrial space:Need for studies under microgravity
6. Removal of atmospheric methane by soil ecosystems and its controlling variables from microbial to global scales
7. Role of biochar in raising blue carbon stock capacity of salt marshes
8. Long-term fertilizer nitrogen management-Soil health conundrum
9. Partnering crops with root-associated microbes for soil health and agricultural sustainability
10. Prospects of sediment deposition at small watershed scale in the black soil region of Northeast China:A mini review
11. Importance of periphytic biofilms for carbon cycling in paddy fields:A review
12. Soil and microbial C:N:P stoichiometries play vital roles in regulating P transformation in agricultural ecosystems:A review
13. Effects of different organic fertilizers on nitrous oxide and methane emissions from double-cropping rice fields
14. Patterns and drivers of seasonal water sources for artificial sand-fixing plants in the northeastern Mu Us sandy land,Northwest China
15. Adsorption of trichlorphon on phyllosilicate minerals:Effect of low-molecular-weight organic acids
16. Agronomic performances of biodegradable and non-biodegradable plastic film mulching on a maize cropping system in the semi-arid Loess Plateau,China
17. Organo-mineral complexes in soil colloids:Implications for carbon storage in saline-alkaline paddy soils from an eight-year field experiment
18. Effects of organic fertilizers produced using different techniques on rice grain yield and ammonia volatilization in double-cropping rice fields
19. Alterations of soil aggregates and intra-aggregate organic carbon fractions after soil conversion from paddy soils to upland soils:Distribution,mineralization and driving mechanism
20. Zokor activity promotes soil water infiltration in the Mu Us sandy land of northern Shaanxi,China
21. Laboratory and numerical modelling of irrigation infiltration and nitrogen leaching in homogeneous soils
22. Environmental benefits and farmers’adoption of winter cover crops in the North China Plain
23. Incorporation of source contributions to improve the accuracy of soil heavy metal mapping using small sample sizes at a county scale
24. Land use effects on the dynamics of soil C,N and microbes in the water-wind erosion crisscross region of the northern Loess Plateau,China
25. Promotion effects of salt-alkali on ammonia volatilization in a coastal soil
26. Global patterns of soil phosphatase responses to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization
27. Effects of herbicide butachlor application on the growth of periphytic biofilms and nitrogen loss in paddy systems
28. Application of controlled-release urea increases maize N uptake,environmental benefits and economic returns via optimizing temporal and spatial distributions of soil mineral N
29. Assessment of soil total phosphorus storage in a complex topography along China’s southeast coast based on multiple mapping scales
30. Responses of nitrogen cycling and related microorganisms to brackish wetlands formed by evapotranspiration