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, the living terrestrial skin of the Earth, plays a central role in supporting life and is home
to an unimaginable diversity of microorganisms. This review explores key drivers for …

Biodiversity is important for supporting ecosystem functioning. To evaluate the factors
contributing to the strength of microbial diversity-function relationships in complex terrestrial …

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 …

Interactions between plants, soils and microbes regulate terrestrial ecosystem functioning.
Biotic and abiotic interactions can strongly affect the community structure which in turn will …

Network and multivariate statistical analyses were performed to determine interactions
between bacterial and fungal community terminal restriction length polymorphisms as well …

Soil represents a very heterogeneous environment for its microbiota. Among the soil
inhabitants, bacteria and fungi are important organisms as they are involved in key …

Soil microorganisms play a key role in driving major biogeochemical cycles and in global
responses to climate change. However, understanding and predicting the behavior and …

Network analysis has been used for many years in ecological research to analyze
organismal associations, for example in food webs, plant-plant or plant-animal interactions …

In soil, the link between microbial diversity and carbon transformations is challenged by the
concept of functional redundancy. Here, we hypothesized that functional redundancy may …