Background Soil bacteria are important drivers for nearly all biogeochemical cycles in
terrestrial ecosystems and participate in most nutrient transformations in soil. In contrast to …

Abstract Background, Aims and Scope Soil microbial community diversity has been
suggested as a way of assessing the 'health'or 'quality'of soils. While molecular (genetic) or …

Microbial communities in soil provide a wide range of ecosystem services. On the small
scale, nutrient rich hotspots in soil developed from the activities of animals or plants are …

Microbial growth and mortality are major determinants of soil carbon cycling. We measured
in situ growth dynamics of individual bacterial taxa in cropped and successional soils in …

Evaluating the biodiversity of microbial communities remains an elusive task because of
taxonomic and methodological difficulties. An alternative approach is to examine …

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 …

The methodical developments in the fields of molecular biology and analytical chemistry
significantly increased the level of detail that we achieve when exploring soils and their …

Soil bacteria provide a large range of ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling. Despite
their important role in soil systems, compositional and functional responses of bacterial …

For over a decade, community level physiological profile (CLPP) assays, which assess a
microbial community's capacity to metabolize specific sole carbon sources under defined …

The overwhelming taxonomic diversity and metabolic complexity of microorganisms can be
simplified by a life-history classification; copiotrophs grow faster and rely on resource …