A major thrust of terrestrial microbial ecology is focused on understanding when and how
the composition of the microbial community affects the functioning of biogeochemical …

Both soil pH and substrate quality exert a critical influence on the decomposition of organic
substrates and the production of microbial biomass. However, it is elusive the interactive …

Soils are hotspots of diversity and sustain many globally important functions. Here we focus
on the most burning issue: how to keep soils as carbon sinks while maintaining their …

Soil microbes, the main driving force of terrestrial biogeochemical cycles, facilitate soil
organic matter turnover. However, the influence of the soil fauna on microbial communities …

This chapter aims to provide a mechanistic understanding of the role microbes play in soil
carbon (C) storage and propose pathways to include this data to modify existing ecological …

Empirical evidence for the response of soil carbon cycling to the combined effects of
warming, drought and diversity loss is scarce. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) plays a …

Bacteria and fungi possess distinct physiological traits. Their macroecology is vital for
ecosystem functioning such as carbon cycling. However, bacterial and fungal biogeography …

Climate-induced changes in soil microbial physiology impact ecosystem carbon (C) storage
and alter the rate of CO2 flux from soils to the atmosphere (Allison et al., 2010). The direction …

Soil bacteria and fungi mediate terrestrial biogeochemical cycling, but we know relatively
little about how trophic interactions influence their community composition, diversity, and …