Ranking environmental and edaphic attributes driving soil microbial community structure and activity with special attention to spatial and temporal scales

VVSR Gupta, JM Tiedje - Mlife, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The incredibly complex soil microbial communities at small scales make their analysis and
identification of reasons for the observed structures challenging. Microbial community …

Using landscape and depth gradients to decouple the impact of correlated environmental variables on soil microbial community composition

VJ Allison, Z Yermakov, RM Miller, JD Jastrow… - Soil Biology and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Simultaneously assessing shifts in microbial community composition along landscape and
depth gradients allows us to decouple correlations among environmental variables, thus …

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J De Gruyter, JT Weedon, S Bazot, S Dauwe… - research.vu.nl
Although ongoing research has revealed some of the main drivers behind global spatial
patterns of microbial communities, spatio-temporal dynamics of these communities still …

Patterns of local, intercontinental and interseasonal variation of soil bacterial and eukaryotic microbial communities

J De Gruyter, JT Weedon, S Bazot… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Although ongoing research has revealed some of the main drivers behind global spatial
patterns of microbial communities, spatio-temporal dynamics of these communities still …

Soil microbial community structures are shaped by agricultural systems revealing little temporal variation

A Fox, F Widmer, A Lüscher - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Many studies in soil microbial ecology are undertaken with a single sampling event, with the
influence of temporal progression rarely being considered. Under field conditions, soil …

Importance of spatially structured environmental heterogeneity in controlling microbial community composition at small spatial scales in an agricultural field

RB Franklin, AL Mills - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Spatial heterogeneity is an inherent feature of soils that has significant functional
implications, particularly when the activities of soil microbial communities are considered …

Local biotic interactions drive species-specific divergence in soil bacterial communities

XF Zhao, YQ Hao, DY Zhang, QG Zhang - The ISME Journal, 2019 - academic.oup.com
It is well accepted that environmental heterogeneity and dispersal are key factors
determining soil bacterial community composition, yet little is known about the role of local …

Life history determines biogeographical patterns of soil bacterial communities over multiple spatial scales

A Bissett, AE Richardson, G Baker, S Wakelin… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The extent to which the distribution of soil bacteria is controlled by local environment vs.
spatial factors (eg dispersal, colonization limitation, evolutionary events) is poorly …

Can we estimate functionality of soil microbial communities from structure-derived predictions? A reality test in agricultural soils

C Breitkreuz, A Heintz-Buschart, F Buscot… - Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Computational approaches that link bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplicon data to functional
genes based on prokaryotic reference genomes have emerged. This study aims to validate …

Soil microbes along elevational gradients: community structure, diversity, and role in nutrient cycling

JA Siles, M Gómez-Brandón, H Insam… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microbes play key roles in soil. It is known that climatic factors, edaphic properties, and plant
communities influence soil microbial diversity and community composition (Delgado …