Soil microbial biogeography in a changing world: recent advances and future perspectives

H Chu, GF Gao, Y Ma, K Fan, M Delgado-Baquerizo - MSystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Soil microbial communities are fundamental to maintaining key soil processes associated
with litter decomposition, nutrient cycling, and plant productivity and are thus integral to …

Microbial biodiversity and plant functional trait interactions in multifunctional ecosystems

MM Nizamani, AC Hughes, S Qureshi, Q Zhang… - Applied Soil …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent studies have cast new light on the intricate interplay between microbial biodiversity
and plant functional traits, underscoring their pivotal roles in counteracting the adverse …

TRY plant trait database–enhanced coverage and open access

J Kattge, G Bönisch, S Díaz, S Lavorel… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

Stoichiometric imbalance and microbial community regulate microbial elements use efficiencies under nitrogen addition

J Li, C Sang, J Yang, L Qu, Z Xia, H Sun, P Jiang… - Soil Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial elements use efficiencies are the important parameters in regulating soil carbon
(C) and nitrogen (N) mineralization processes. Microbial C use efficiency (CUE) describes …

[HTML][HTML] The diversity and co-occurrence network of soil bacterial and fungal communities and their implications for a new indicator of grassland degradation

X Wu, J Yang, H Ruan, S Wang, Y Yang, I Naeem… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Grassland degradation is a retrogressive succession of grassland vegetation, which leads to
the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem functions. Soil microbiomes play …

Drivers of the composition of active rhizosphere bacterial communities in temperate grasslands

S Vieira, J Sikorski, S Dietz, K Herz… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The active bacterial rhizobiomes and root exudate profiles of phytometers of six plant
species growing in central European temperate grassland communities were investigated in …

Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient

C Shen, A Gunina, Y Luo, J Wang, JZ He… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial elevational diversity patterns have been extensively studied, but their shaping
mechanisms remain to be explored. Here, we examined soil bacterial and fungal diversity …

Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils

L Yang, D Ning, Y Yang, N He, X Li, CR Cornell… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial biodiversity is crucial for maintaining ecosystem functions. As climate change
progresses at both global and regional scales, there is a need to understand microbial …

TRY–a global database of plant traits

J Kattge, S Diaz, S Lavorel, IC Prentice… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Soil pH determines bacterial distribution and assembly processes in natural mountain forests of eastern China

Y Ni, T Yang, Y Ma, K Zhang, PS Soltis… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim There have been numerous studies of forest‐soil microbial biogeography, but an
integrated view of edaphic factors, plant, climatic factors, and geographic distance in …