Soil microbes play an essential role in the environment by contributing to the release of key
nutrients from primary minerals that are required not only for their own nutrition but also for …

Microbes are active agents of environmental change. From the depths of the Earth's crust to
the heights of the upper atmosphere, microorganisms alter the physicochemical conditions …

Unlike farmland, forests growing on acidic soils are among the terrestrial ecosystems that
are the least influenced or amended by man. Forests which developed on acidic soils are …

Soil is composed of a mosaic of different rocks and minerals, usually considered as an inert
substrata for microbial colonization. However, recent findings suggest that minerals, in soils …

Rock weathering is a key process in global elemental cycling. Life participates in this
process with tangible consequences observed from the mineral interface to the planetary …

Mineral–microbe interaction has been a key factor shaping the lithosphere of our planet
since the Precambrian. Detailed investigation has been mainly focused on the role of …

Résumé Prokaryotes have been shaping the surface of the Earth and impacting
geochemical cycles for the past four billion years. Biomineralization, the capacity to form …

Plant nutrients can be recycled through microbial decomposition of organic matter but
replacement of base cations and phosphorus, lost through harvesting of biomass/biofuels or …

Mineralogy, microbial ecology, and mineral weathering in the subsurface are an intimately
linked biogeochemical system. Although bacteria have been implicated indirectly in the …

No rock at the Earth's surface escapes weathering. This process is the primary source of all
the essential elements for organisms, except nitrogen and carbon. Since the onset of …