Soil Acidification Reshapes Microbial Trophic Interactions, with Implications for Plant Responses and Ecosystem Functioning in Tea Plantation Systems
Seda Bodur, Rasit Asiloglu, Keziban Yazici · 2026
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Seda Bodur, Rasit Asiloglu, and Keziban Yazici present a 2026 synthesis on how soil acidification reshapes the hidden food webs of tea plantation soils. Years of heavy nitrogen fertilizer leave tea soils strongly acidic, which filters which microbes can live there. Past work tracked bacteria and fungi, but this review spotlights protists, the tiny hunters that eat bacteria and release nutrients plants can use.
The authors argue that acid stress rewires who eats whom, not just who survives, and that this rewiring can shift nutrient cycling, disease suppression, and plant vigor. Direct proof in tea soils is still thin, since most of the chain rests on other soil systems. They frame tea fields as ideal test beds for joining stress and food-web views.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Seda Bodur, Rasit Asiloglu, Keziban Yazici |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30295 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |