The role of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle: tracking the below‐ground microbial processing of plant‐derived carbon for manipulating carbon dynamics in …

C Gougoulias, JM Clark, LJ Shaw - … of the Science of Food and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
It is well known that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2)(and other
greenhouse gases) have increased markedly as a result of human activity since the …

Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

S Krause, X Le Roux, PA Niklaus… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
In ecology, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research has seen a shift in
perspective from taxonomy to function in the last two decades, with successful application of …

Hadal biosphere: insight into the microbial ecosystem in the deepest ocean on Earth

T Nunoura, Y Takaki, M Hirai… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Hadal oceans at water depths below 6,000 m are the least-explored aquatic biosphere. The
Challenger Deep, located in the western equatorial Pacific, with a water depth of∼ 11 km, is …

Recent advances in the breakdown of microplastics: strategies and future prospectives

M Lv, B Jiang, Y Xing, H Ya, T Zhang… - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
Microplastics pollution is becoming a major environmental issue, and exposure to
microplastics has been associated with numerous adverse results to both the ecological …

Global prevalence of methane oxidation by symbiotic bacteria in peat-moss ecosystems

N Kip, JF Van Winden, Y Pan, L Bodrossy… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Peat bogs store up to a third of all terrestrial carbon on Earth, and are one of the largest
natural sources of atmospheric methane. Anaerobic degradation of submerged Sphagnum …

Culture-independent molecular techniques for soil microbial ecology

PR Hirsch, TH Mauchline, IM Clark - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2010 - Elsevier
The advent of nucleic acid-based molecular methods, in particular the polymerase chain
reaction (PCR), has revolutionised the study of soil microbial ecology, previously …

The Sphagnum microbiome: new insights from an ancient plant lineage

JE Kostka, DJ Weston, JB Glass, EA Lilleskov… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Peat mosses of the genus Sphagnum play a major role in global carbon storage and
dominate many northern peatland ecosystems, which are currently being subjected to some …

Application of metatranscriptomics to soil environments

LC Carvalhais, PG Dennis, GW Tyson… - Journal of microbiological …, 2012 - Elsevier
The activities of soil microbial communities are of critical importance to terrestrial ecosystem
functioning. The mechanisms that determine the interactions between soil microorganisms …

Defining the Sphagnum Core Microbiome across the North American Continent Reveals a Central Role for Diazotrophic Methanotrophs in the Nitrogen and Carbon …

M Kolton, DJ Weston, X Mayali, PK Weber… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Peat mosses of the genus Sphagnum are ecosystem engineers that frequently predominate
over photosynthetic production in boreal peatlands. Sphagnum spp. host diverse microbial …

When metagenomics meets stable-isotope probing: progress and perspectives

Y Chen, JC Murrell - Trends in Microbiology, 2010 - cell.com
The application of metagenomics, the culture-independent capture and subsequent analysis
of genomic DNA from the environment, has greatly expanded our knowledge of the diversity …