Predicting measures of soil health using the microbiome and supervised machine learning

RC Wilhelm, HM van Es, DH Buckley - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil health encompasses a range of biological, chemical, and physical soil properties that
sustain the commercial and ecological value of agroecosystems. Monitoring soil health …

Ecological insights into soil health according to the genomic traits and environment-wide associations of bacteria in agricultural soils

RC Wilhelm, JP Amsili, KSM Kurtz… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Soil microbiomes are sensitive to current and previous soil conditions, and bacterial
'bioindicators' of biological, physical, and chemical soil properties have considerable …

How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health

N Fierer, SA Wood, CPB de Mesquita - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Healthy soils are critical to the health of ecosystems, economies, and human populations.
Thus, it is widely acknowledged that soil health is important to quantify, both for assessment …

Soil microbiome predictability increases with spatial and taxonomic scale

C Averill, ZR Werbin, KF Atherton… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Soil microorganisms shape ecosystem function, yet it remains an open question whether we
can predict the composition of the soil microbiome in places before observing it …

Microbial community structure and diversity as indicators for evaluating soil quality

SK Sharma, A Ramesh, MP Sharma, OP Joshi… - Biodiversity, biofuels …, 2011 - Springer
The living soil system is of primary importance in sustainable agricultural production. Soil
quality is considered as an integrative indicator of environmental quality, food security and …

Using soil bacterial communities to predict physico-chemical variables and soil quality

SM Hermans, HL Buckley, BS Case… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
Background Soil ecosystems consist of complex interactions between biological
communities and physico-chemical variables, all of which contribute to the overall quality of …

Predicting disease occurrence with high accuracy based on soil macroecological patterns of Fusarium wilt

J Yuan, T Wen, H Zhang, M Zhao, CR Penton… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Soil-borne plant diseases are increasingly causing devastating losses in agricultural
production. The development of a more refined model for disease prediction can aid in …

You must choose, but choose wisely: Model-based approaches for microbial community analysis

MFA Leite, EE Kuramae - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil microbial community data produced by next-generation sequencing platforms has
introduced a new era in microbial ecology studies but poses a challenge for data analysis …

Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments

J Wade, SW Culman, CK Gasch, C Lazcano… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil health is a promising lens through which to approach land management, having the
potential to serve as a descriptor of biophysical processes and as an effective …

Beyond microbial diversity for predicting soil functions: A mini review

P Nannipieri, J Ascher-Jenull, MT Ceccherini… - Pedosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the advent of sequencing technologies, the determination of microbial diversity to
predict microbial functions, which are the major determinants of soil functions, has become a …