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soil-biology-and-biochemistry

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Use when targeting Soil Biology & Biochemistry or deciding whether a soil-science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the soil-process-mechanism bar, evidence and data-reporting expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

When to use

• fit/framing check for a soil-process or soil-microbial paper
• re-framing microbial-community or soil-carbon dataset around process mechanism
• choosing between SBB, agriculture-ecosystems-and-environment, and broader biogeochemistry venue
• SBB desk-reject heuristics and credible alternative route
• soil organic matter formation, stabilization, and decomposition
• soil microbial ecology and function
• nutrient cycling and transformations
• extracellular enzymes, microbial physiology, and carbon/nutrient-use efficiency

When not to use

• soil survey
• descriptive community census with no process link
• management trial whose contribution is an agronomic outcome rather than a soil mechanism
• agroecosystem environmental outcomes at field-landscape scale
• crop yield/agronomy and resource-use efficiency

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