Tree species identity surpasses richness in affecting soil microbial richness and community composition in subtropical forests

L Chen, W Xiang, H Wu, S Ouyang, B Zhou… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
effects of tree species richness (1–12 species) and the presence of certain influential tree
species (sampling effect) on soil bacterial … composition were used as primary data to calculate

Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient

C Shen, A Gunina, Y Luo, J Wang, JZ He… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Variation partitioning analysis showed that the joint effects of … found that plant species richness
significantly decreased with … In addition, we estimated these indices for 11 bacterial phyla …

Linking bacterial community composition to soil salinity along environmental gradients

KM Rath, N Fierer, DV Murphy, J Rousk - The ISME journal, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… the effects of salinity from those of other variables that may co-vary with salinity. Here we use
a trait-based approach to identify direct effects of salinity on soil bacterial … by calculating the …

Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

L Wu, D Ning, B Zhang, Y Li, P Zhang, X Shan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
biodiversity research is determining the number of species in an ecological system 19 . We
estimated the global richness of activated sludge bacterial … a weak effect on species richness (…

Soil pH and temperature regulate assembly processes of abundant and rare bacterial communities in agricultural ecosystems

S Jiao, Y Lu - Environmental Microbiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… The impact of environmental variables on β-diversity was assessed using a distance-…
estimated the phylogenetic depths of environmental responses for the abundant and rare bacterial

Time after time: temporal variation in the effects of grass and forb species on soil bacterial and fungal communities

SE Hannula, AM Kielak, K Steinauer, M Huberty… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
… index was used to calculate the diversity of fungal phylotypes and bacterial OTUs, and copy
numbers derived from quantitative PCR (qPCR) were used to estimate the abundance of the …

Diversity-triggered deterministic bacterial assembly constrains community functions

W Xun, W Li, W Xiong, Y Ren, Y Liu, Y Miao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… (local species richness) may have positive effects on ecosystem … a moderate shift in the
bacterial species richness across soil pH … This tendency was further confirmed by calculating the …

Global pattern of phytoplankton diversity driven by temperature and environmental variability

D Righetti, M Vogt, N Gruber, A Psomas… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
… While the effect of environmental variability thus remains a valid hypothesis for this … The
monthly sea surface estimates of phytoplankton species richness from our GAM ensemble mean …

Meta-analysis of the impacts of global change factors on soil microbial diversity and functionality

Z Zhou, C Wang, Y Luo - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
… 11) and different metrics had very little effect on the RR of microbial richness to … in richness
analysis. Therefore, we chose a random-effect model to calculate the overall RR of richness

Factors influencing aquatic and terrestrial bacterial community assembly

S Langenheder, ES Lindström - Environmental microbiology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… processes and include estimates of heterogeneity based on various environmental variables.
In … habitats and investigate interactive effects with environmental drivers operating at larger …