An expectation in soil ecology is that a microbial communities' fungal: bacterial dominance
indicates both its response to environmental change and its impact on ecosystem function …

Highlights•Fungi and bacteria interact in soil, likely affecting their ecosystem
function.•Correlation network analysis is a powerful tool to characterise F: B interactions.•F …

Soil microbial communities are so vastly diverse that complex interactions, which alter
ecosystem functions, may occur among microbial species and functional groups. In this …

It is important to know the contributions of bacteria and fungi to decomposition in connection
with both the structure of the food web and the functioning of the ecosystem. However, the …

▪ Abstract An increasing interest has emerged with respect to the importance of microbial
diversity in soil habitats. The extent of the diversity of microorganisms in soil is seen to be …

Since the advent of sequencing technologies, the determination of microbial diversity to
predict microbial functions, which are the major determinants of soil functions, has become a …

Many world ecosystems are in various states of decline evidenced by erosion, low
productivity, and poor water quality caused by forest clearing, intensive agricultural …

The most accepted theories in soil ecology suggest that broad (eg respiration) and
specialized (eg denitrification) functions are affected differently by resource availability and …

Microbes are responsible for most soil processes but our knowledge of the relationship
between belowground diversity and ecosystem functioning and how this is affected by land …

Resolving fungal and bacterial groups within the microbial decomposer community is
thought to capture disparate life strategies for soil microbial decomposers, associating …