Since fungi and bacteria are the dominant decomposers in soil, their distinct physiologies
are likely to differentially influence rates of ecosystem carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling …

Despite several lines of observational evidence, there is a lack of consensus on whether
higher fungal: bacterial (F: B) ratios directly cause higher soil carbon (C) storage. We …

Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE), or the partitioning of assimilated C into growth or
respiration, is a key parameter that is central to understanding the soil C cycle and its …

Understanding the role of soil microbial communities in coupled carbon and nitrogen cycles
has become an area of great interest as we strive to understand how global change will …

Soil ecological stoichiometry provides powerful theories to integrate the complex interplay of
element cycling and microbial communities into biogeochemical models. One essential …

Soil communities dominated by fungi such as those of no-tillage (NT) agroecosystems are
often associated with greater soil organic matter (SOM) storage. This has been attributed in …

Microbial community plays critical roles in driving soil carbon (C) cycling in terrestrial
ecosystems. However, we lack empirical evidence to demonstrate the role of microbial …

Rapidly increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has substantially altered resource
availability and the stoichiometry of microbial biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. However …

Background Variation in microbial metabolism poses one of the greatest current
uncertainties in models of global carbon cycling, and is particularly poorly understood in …

Although nitrogen (N) enrichment enhances both soil N availability and soil acidification, it is
difficult to isolate their effects on microbial taxa that drive the soil carbon (C) dynamics under …