Anthropogenic impacts on lowland tropical peatland biogeochemistry

S Page, S Mishra, F Agus, G Anshari… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tropical peatlands store around one-sixth of the global peatland carbon pool (105
gigatonnes), equivalent to 30% of the carbon held in rainforest vegetation. Deforestation …

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 …

Bioengineering a future free of marine plastic waste

MU Sheth, SK Kwartler, ER Schmaltz… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plastic waste has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, and the production of plastic
continues to rise steadily. Plastic represents a diverse array of commonly used synthetic …

Effects of forest degradation on microbial communities and soil carbon cycling: a global meta‐analysis

Z Zhou, C Wang, Y Luo - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim was to explore how conversions of primary or secondary forests to plantations
or agricultural systems influence soil microbial communities and soil carbon (C) cycling …

Response of soil microbial community dynamics to Robinia pseudoacacia L. afforestation in the loess plateau: a chronosequence approach

J Liu, Z Yang, P Dang, H Zhu, Y Gao, VN Ha, Z Zhao - Plant and Soil, 2018 - Springer
Aims The objective was to analyze soil microbial community dynamics and their responses
to changes in vegetation and soil properties after Robinia pseudoacacia afforestation along …

Microbial community structure in a Malaysian tropical peat swamp forest: the influence of tree species and depth

CC Too, A Keller, W Sickel, SM Lee… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tropical peat swamp forests sequester globally significant stores of carbon in deep layers of
waterlogged, anoxic, acidic and nutrient-depleted peat. The roles of microbes in supporting …

Soil bacterial communities and their associated functions for forest restoration on a limestone mine in northern Thailand

C Sansupa, W Purahong, T Wubet, P Tiansawat… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Opencast mining removes topsoil and associated bacterial communities that play crucial
roles in soil ecosystem functioning. Understanding the community composition and …

Local geomorphological gradients and land use patterns play key role on the soil bacterial community diversity and dynamics in the highly endemic indigenous …

HJO Ogola, R Selvarajan, M Tekere - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Southern Afrotemperate forests are small multi-layered and highly fragmented biodiversity
rich biomes that support unique flora and fauna endemism. However, little is known about …

[HTML][HTML] Searching for signatures across microbial communities: Metagenomic analysis of soil samples from mangrove and other ecosystems

M Imchen, R Kumavath, D Barh, V Azevedo, P Ghosh… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In this study, we categorize the microbial community in mangrove sediment samples from
four different locations within a vast mangrove system in Kerala, India. We compared this …

Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the reproductive structures of a basidiomycete fungus

RA Koch, GM Yoon, UK Aryal, K Lail, M Amirebrahimi… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Nitrogen (N) fixation is a driving force for the formation of symbiotic associations between N
2-fixing bacteria and eukaryotes. 1 Limited examples of these associations are known in …