A comparison of the ability of PLFA and 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding to resolve soil community change and predict ecosystem functions

KH Orwin, IA Dickie, R Holdaway, JR Wood - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil bacterial community structure has traditionally been measured using phospholipid fatty
acid (PLFA) profiling. However, with the development of high-throughput sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Correlations between gut microbiota community structures of Tibetans and geography

D Lan, W Ji, B Lin, Y Chen, C Huang, X Xiong, M Fu… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Microbial communities of human gut directly influence health and bear adaptive potential to
different geography environment and lifestyles. However, knowledge about the influences of …

Simulated climate change and seasonal drought increase carbon and phosphorus demand in Mediterranean forest soils

D Asensio, P Zuccarini, R Ogaya… - Soil biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A better understanding of soil biogeochemical responses to the increasing drought
predicted in many regions for the next decades by climate models is needed. Extracellular …

Phyllosphere metaproteomes of trees from the Brazilian Atlantic forest show high levels of functional redundancy

MR Lambais, SE Barrera, EC Santos, DE Crowley… - Microbial Ecology, 2017 - Springer
The phyllosphere of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest has been estimated to contain several
million bacterial species that are associated with approximately 20000 plant species …

Agricultural matrix affects differently the alpha and beta structural and functional diversity of soil microbial communities in a fragmented Mediterranean holm oak forest

D Flores-Rentería, A Rincón, F Valladares… - Soil Biology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Given the increase in habitat fragmentation in the Mediterranean forests, understanding its
impacts over the ecology of soil microbial communities, responsible for many ecosystem …

Benefactor and allelopathic shrub species have different effects on the soil microbial community along an environmental severity gradient

S Hortal, F Bastida, JL Moreno, C Armas… - Soil Biology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Patches where shrubs have either positive or negative effects on their understory plant
community are common in arid ecosystems. The intensity and balance of these effects …

Soil biota response to experimental rainfall reduction depends on the dominant tree species in mature northern Mediterranean forests

A Aupic-Samain, M Santonja, M Chomel… - Soil biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil organisms play a major role on litter decomposition process and nutrient cycling in
forest ecosystems. These organisms are extremely sensitive to environmental conditions …

Differential responses of soil community to reclamation with legumes versus grasses after an application of blended amendments in mining-disturbed soils

T Zheng, H Zeng, X Zhang, J Luo, X Chen… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alkaline and organic amendment are effective options to ensure successful
phytostabilization in mining-disturbed soil ecosystems. However, the different effects of a …

Changes in litter chemistry associated with global change-driven forest succession resulted in time-decoupled responses of soil carbon and nitrogen cycles

MJ Fernández-Alonso, JC Yuste, B Kitzler… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Global change-driven forest succession may modify key soil processes with potentially
important impacts over carbon (C) and nutrient cycling. We studied how changes in litter …

Assessing soil microbial respiration capacity using rDNA-or rRNA-based indices: a review

R Che, W Wang, J Zhang, TTN Nguyen, J Tao… - Journal of Soils and …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Understanding soil heterotrophic respiration in relation to microbial properties is
not only fundamental to soil respiration modelling, prediction, and regulation through …