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Radon is indeed more soluble in the residual NAPL than in air or water, but laboratory experiments demonstrated that it is also preferentially partitioned in the NAPL vapors that transport it and may influence soil radon distribution patterns.

As soil C and N pools were not higher in plots with higher earthworm biomass, these results suggest earthworm activity may influence soil nutrient cycling by decreasing turnover times of nutrient pools over the long-term.

Management practices that may influence soil carbon losses in erosion and runoff include changing land use, tillage, ground cover, farm layout and slope, furrow length and vegetative buffer strips in the tail end of the field.

(i) We predicted that plant species identity may influence soil microbial community composition, if species differ in factors, such as root exudates, which influence microbial community composition.

"It was established that of many factors that may influence soil compactibility, particle-size distribution is the most important for a group of soils studied" (Van der Watt 1969, p 79).

We predict higher microbial activity in A. adenophora soils due to addition of terpene-rich litter, which may influence soil available nitrogen and thus the positive effects of A. adenophora biomass accumulation.

An occasional targeted tillage operation (termed strategic tillage — ST) has been proposed as a management tool to reduce problem weed populations but may adversely influence soil properties and those of associated microbial communities.

In addition to the impacts of pathogens and mutualists described above, soil microbial communities can influence soil fertility through decomposition of litter, which in turn may influence invasion.

(iv) Finally, plant congeners may have similar soil microbial communities, if close relatives have similar traits or habitat preferences, which influence soil microbial community composition.

We believe that an increase in aboveground litterfall may have a large impact on belowground carbon and nutrient cycling, as annual litterfall is closely correlated with soil respiration on a global scale [21], [22], and the amount of litter on the forest floor also affects soil nutrient status, soil water content, soil temperature, and pH [9], all of which can influence soil respiration rates.

Thus, plant relatedness might influence soil fungal, more than soil bacterial, community composition.