Temperate coniferous forests sustain the highest levels of biomass of all terrestrial
ecosystems and belong to the major carbon sinks on Earth. However, the community …

Soil bacteria are important components of forest ecosystems, there compostion structure and
functions are sensitive to environmental conditions along elevation gradients. Using 16S …

Background Evergreen coniferous forests contain high stocks of organic matter. Significant
carbon transformations occur in litter and soil of these ecosystems, making them important …

Due to land use history, most of the current temperate and boreal forests are developed on
nutrient-poor and rocky soils, keeping fertile soils for agriculture. Consequently, the …

Forests are essential biomes for global biogeochemical cycles, and belowground
microorganisms have a key role in providing relevant ecosystem services. To predict the …

Soil microorganisms such as Bacteria and Archaea play important roles in the
biogeochemical cycling of soil nutrients, because they act as decomposers or are mutualistic …

Understanding the ecology of coniferous forests is very important because these
environments represent globally largest carbon sinks. Metatranscriptomics, microbial …

It was hypothesized that seasonality and resource availability altered through tree girdling
were major determinants of the phylogenetic composition of the archaeal and bacterial …

The soil is one of the most complex systems where species belonging to different kingdoms
live together (Young and Crawford, 2004). In particular, microorganisms such as bacteria …

Bacteria belong to the key players in the carbon cycling in forest soils and thus affect the
global C balance. Our understanding of bacterial contribution to ecosystem processes relies …