ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2026
Long-term farmyard organic residue amendments shape the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities to simulated drying and heating-drying disturbances under a changing climate in the Senegalese groundnut basin.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: Soil hosts a rich diversity of microorganisms essential to ecosystem functioning, but the droughts and high temperatures projected under future climate scenarios, particularly in Senegal, may significantly disrupt these processes. This study aimed to assess the effects of projected drying and combined heating-drying stress on the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities, and to evaluate how these properties are shaped by contrasting farming practices, home-fields, which receive regular organic inputs, versus out-fields, which receive low or no organic inputs. Methods: Soils sampled from home-field and out-field plots were subjected to five cycles of drying and heating-drying disturbance under controlled conditions. The effects on carbon mineralization, β-glucosidase activity, and microbial biomass and abundance (PLFA profiles) were assessed. Results: Both drying and combined heating-drying significantly reduced microbial activity and biomass, regardless of farming practice, with soils exposed to drying alone less affected than those subjected to combined heating-drying stress. Long-term organic amendments in home-fields markedly enhanced soil microbial communities and improved resistance compared with out-fields receiving low organic inputs. Resilience patterns diverged sharply among microbial parameters: biomass and β-glucosidase activity showed low resilience, whereas carbon mineralization showed high resilience. Discussion: These results are consistent with reports that organic inputs enhance microbial resistance to drying-related stress, while the divergent recovery of carbon mineralization versus biomass and enzyme activity supports the view that functionally redundant processes remain buffered even when community structure does not fully recover. This underscores the value of long-term organic management for building drought resilience in Sahelian farming systems, and points to a need for field-scale, multi-cycle studies under recurrent climate extremes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.