Given the increase in habitat fragmentation in the Mediterranean forests, understanding its
impacts over the ecology of soil microbial communities, responsible for many ecosystem …

The soil microbiome represents one of the most complex microbial communities on the
planet, encompassing thousands of taxa and metabolic pathways, rendering holistic …

Community level physiological profiles (CLPPs) have been implemented in many European
soil monitoring programmes as a rapid tool for the assessment of the functional properties of …

The Biolog assay is a popular tool for estimating carbon (C) substrate utilization potentials of
microbial communities of natural habitats, but its ecological relevance has been questioned …

To better understand the relationship between soil bacterial communities, soil
physicochemical properties, land use and geographical distance, we considered for the first …

Biogeochemical processes and ecosystemic functions are mostly driven by soil microbial
communities. However, most methods focus on evaluating the total microbial community and …

Bacterial communities are important for the health and productivity of soil ecosystems and
have great potential as novel indicators of environmental perturbations. To assess how they …

Changes in the diversity and structure of soil microbial communities may offer a key to
understanding the impact of environmental factors on soil quality in agriculturally managed …

Soil microbes are essential functional components in soil ecosystems, involved in diverse
biogeochemical processes. Storage of soil samples for soil microbial community analysis is …

Nutrient availability and plant diversity are two important factors determining crop
productivity in agricultural ecosystems, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms …