While the world has been mesmerised by China’s emergence as a major player in international trade, now being one of the world’s top ten traders, and also as an absorber of international capital (second only to the United States), China’s state-owned and other public sector enterprises have...

Highlights• Soils with highest nitrification also had the highest denitrification potential (PD).• Soil phosphorus was as important predicting PD as was pH and total nitrogen.• The prokaryotic community was more predictive of soil PD than the fungal community.• Soil community structure,...