Mulching practices altered soil bacterial community structure and improved orchard productivity and apple quality after five growing seasons

By Yuexing Chen, Xiao-xia Wen, Yulin Sun, Junli Zhang, Wei Wu, Y. Liao. 2014

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Plastic mulching in agriculture. Trading short-term agronomic benefits for long-term soil degradation? (2016, background): “Contrarily, ordinary plastic mulching for its yield-increasing purpose led to no significant decreases (Kapanen et al., 2008) or even slight increases in total microbial diversity compared to non-mulched soil (Chen et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2011).”
Soil microbial community and network changes after long-term use of plastic mulch and nitrogen fertilization on semiarid farmland (2021, background): “Other studies have reported that FM changes the community composition and structure of soil bacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Liu et al., 2012a; Chen et al., 2014).”