Fire as a driver of fungal diversity—A synthesis of current knowledge

S Fox, BA Sikes, SP Brown, CL Cripps, SI Glassman… - Mycologia, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Fires occur in most terrestrial ecosystems where they drive changes in the traits,
composition, and diversity of fungal communities. Fires range from rare, stand-replacing …

Distinct assembly processes and microbial communities constrain soil organic carbon formation

MA Anthony, TW Crowther, DS Maynard… - One earth, 2020 - cell.com
Soil stores more carbon (C) than all vegetation and the atmosphere combined. Soil C stocks
are broadly shaped by temperature, moisture, soil physical characteristics, vegetation, and …

Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

J Davison, M Moora, M Semchenko… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are a globally distributed group of soil organisms that
play critical roles in ecosystem function. However, the ecological niches of individual AM …

Regional-scale in-depth analysis of soil fungal diversity reveals strong pH and plant species effects in Northern Europe

L Tedersoo, S Anslan, M Bahram, R Drenkhan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Soil microbiome has a pivotal role in ecosystem functioning, yet little is known about its build-
up from local to regional scales. In a multi-year regional-scale survey involving 1251 plots …

Microbial community succession in soil is mainly driven by carbon and nitrogen contents rather than phosphorus and sulphur contents

S Tang, Q Ma, KA Marsden, DR Chadwick… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic manure is widely applied in agricultural systems to improve soil nutrient cycling and
other physicochemical properties. However, the biotic and abiotic mechanisms that drive C …

GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies

T Větrovský, D Morais, P Kohout, C Lepinay, C Algora… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition,
symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high …

Long‐term nitrogen input alters plant and soil bacterial, but not fungal beta diversity in a semiarid grassland

W Liu, L Liu, X Yang, M Deng, Z Wang… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) input is known to alter plant and microbial α‐diversity, but how N
enrichment influences β‐diversity of plant and microbial communities remains poorly …

Different stochastic processes regulate bacterial and fungal community assembly in estuarine wetland soils

L Huang, J Bai, J Wang, G Zhang, W Wang… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The long-standing challenge in microbial ecology is to quantify the relative importance of
deterministic and stochastic processes in controlling the community structures through …

Effects of nitrogen enrichment on soil microbial characteristics: From biomass to enzyme activities

X Jia, Y Zhong, J Liu, G Zhu, Z Shangguan, W Yan - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil microbes play an important role in ecosystem processes, including carbon (C) and
nutrient cycling. Nitrogen (N) enrichment is known to affect soil microbes, but whether other …

Fungal community composition predicts forest carbon storage at a continental scale

MA Anthony, L Tedersoo, B De Vos, L Croisé… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Forest soils harbor hyper-diverse microbial communities which fundamentally regulate
carbon and nutrient cycling across the globe. Directly testing hypotheses on how …