Soil microbes re-establish plant diversity and ecosystem functions after disturbance events.
Deterministic and stochastic processes are expected to contribute to microbial community …

Soil microorganisms regulate fundamental biochemical processes in plant litter
decomposition and soil organic matter (SOM) transformations. Understanding how microbial …

The spatial and temporal linkages between turnover of soil microbial communities and their
associated functions remain largely unexplored in terrestrial ecosystems. Yet defining these …

Soil microbes link aboveground and belowground ecosystem processes by modulating
nutrient retention, recycling, and availability to plants. The diversity and abundance of soil …

Understanding the changes in microbial community composition that occur during
succession can help elucidate the mechanisms that drive successional dynamics. However …

Ecological succession and the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes are
two major themes within microbial ecology, but these conceptual domains have mostly …

Understanding factors that maintain ecosystem stability is critical in the face of
environmental change. Experiments simulating species loss from grassland have shown …

Soil microbial communities play an important role in maintaining the ecosystem during forest
secondary succession. However, the underlying mechanisms that drive change in soil …

Uncovering the plant‐soil feedback mechanisms underlying the assembly of belowground
microbial communities is essential for terrestrial biodiversity conservation. However, little is …

Land use change has long-term effects on the structure of soil microbial communities, but
the specific community assembly processes underlying these effects have not been …