How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, M Zobel - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND All vascular plants associate with fungi and bacteria—the microbiome. Root
associations with mycorrhizal fungi benefit most plants by enhancing their nutrient access …

How does forest management affect fungal diversity and community composition? Current knowledge and future perspectives for the conservation of forest fungi

A Tomao, JA Bonet, C Castano, S de-Miguel - Forest Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The influence of forest management on fungal diversity and community composition has
been the subject of a wide number of studies over the last two decades. However, the …

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 …

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 …

Role of environmental factors in shaping the soil microbiome

W Islam, A Noman, H Naveed, Z Huang… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
The soil microbiome comprises one of the most important and complex components of all
terrestrial ecosystems as it harbors millions of microbes including bacteria, fungi, archaea …

Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns

T Münkemüller, L Gallien, LJ Pollock… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

Decoupled diversity patterns in bacteria and fungi across continental forest ecosystems

S Liu, H Wang, P Tian, X Yao, H Sun, Q Wang… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent evidence showed that bacteria and fungi appear to have different latitudinal diversity
gradients at the global scale. However, the ecological drivers explaining these decoupled …

Direct and indirect influences of long-term fertilization on microbial carbon and nitrogen cycles in an alpine grassland

W Chen, H Zhou, Y Wu, J Wang, Z Zhao, Y Li… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Beginning in the twentieth century, atmospheric deposition of N and P greatly increased in
terrestrial ecosystems, including alpine grasslands. These inputs have profoundly affected …

Microbial regulation of natural antibiotic resistance: Understanding the protist-bacteria interactions for evolution of soil resistome

BAT Nguyen, QL Chen, JZ He, HW Hu - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The emergence, evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the
environment represent a global threat to human health. Our knowledge of antibiotic …

It takes three to tango: the importance of microbes, host plant, and soil management to elucidate manipulation strategies for the plant microbiome

M Tosi, EK Mitter, J Gaiero… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
The world's population is expected to grow to almost 10 billion by 2050, placing
unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources. The risk in food security is …