Microbial denitrification dominates nitrate losses from forest ecosystems

Yunting Fang, Keisuke Koba, Akiko Makabe, +23

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

High soil microbial activity in the winter season enhances nitrogen cycling in a cool-temperate deciduous forest

Kazuo Isobe, Hiroaki Oka, Tsunehiro Watanabe, +5

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Forest SoilBiogeochemistryEngineeringWinter Season EnhancesMicrobial Ecology +8

Effects of freeze–thaw cycles resulting from winter climate change on soil nitrogen cycling in ten temperate forest ecosystems throughout the Japanese archipelago

Rieko Urakawa, Hideaki Shibata, Megumi Kuroiwa, +12

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Freeze-thaw CyclingBiogeochemistryTerrestrial EcosystemWinter Climate ChangeForestry +5

Factors contributing to soil nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates of forest soils in the Japanese archipelago

Rieko Urakawa, Nobuhito Ohte, Hideaki Shibata, +21

Forest Ecology and Management

BiogeochemistryEngineeringNitrogen MineralizationJapanese ArchipelagoForestry +5

The effect of a freeze–thaw cycle on dissolved nitrogen dynamics and its relation to dissolved organic matter and soil microbial biomass in the soil of a northern hardwood forest

Tsunehiro Watanabe, Ryunosuke Tateno, Shogo Imada, +10

Biogeochemistry

BiogeochemistryEngineeringNorthern Hardwood ForestDissolved Nitrogen DynamicsOrganic Matter +6

Biogeochemical nitrogen properties of forest soils in the Japanese archipelago

Rieko Urakawa, Nobuhito Ohte, Hideaki Shibata, +23

Ecological Research

Gross nitrification rates in four Japanese forest soils: heterotrophic versus autotrophic and the regulation factors for the nitrification

Megumi Kuroiwa, Keisuke Koba, Kazuo Isobe, +10

Journal of Forest Research

Regulation FactorsOrganic GeochemistryBiogeochemistryForest SoilEngineering +11

Seasonality of factors controlling N mineralization rates among slope positions and aspects in cool-temperate deciduous natural forests and larch plantations

Takuo Hishi, Rieko Urakawa, Naoaki Tashiro, +2

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Slope PositionsBiogeochemistryLarch PlantationsEngineeringForest Hydrology +6

Soil freeze–thaw with root litter alters N transformations during the dormant season in soils under two temperate forests in northern Japan

Nanae Hosokawa, Kazuo Isobe, Rieko Urakawa, +4

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Freeze-thaw CyclingBiogeochemistryDormant SeasonEngineeringPlant-soil Interaction +6

Changes in nitrogen transformation in forest soil representing the climate gradient of the Japanese archipelago

Hideaki Shibata, Rieko Urakawa, Hiroto Toda, +6

Journal of Forest Research