Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

Keystone taxa as drivers of microbiome structure and functioning

S Banerjee, K Schlaeppi… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Microorganisms have a pivotal role in the functioning of ecosystems. Recent studies have
shown that microbial communities harbour keystone taxa, which drive community …

Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

MM Yuan, X Guo, L Wu, YA Zhang, N Xiao… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Unravelling the relationships between network complexity and stability under changing
climate is a challenging topic in theoretical ecology that remains understudied in the field of …

Co-occurrence networks reveal more complexity than community composition in resistance and resilience of microbial communities

C Gao, L Xu, L Montoya, M Madera… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Plant response to drought stress involves fungi and bacteria that live on and in plants and in
the rhizosphere, yet the stability of these myco-and micro-biomes remains poorly …

microeco: an R package for data mining in microbial community ecology

C Liu, Y Cui, X Li, M Yao - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A large amount of sequencing data is produced in microbial community ecology
studies using the high-throughput sequencing technique, especially amplicon-sequencing …

Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionality

L Qiu, Q Zhang, H Zhu, PB Reich, S Banerjee… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
While soil erosion drives land degradation, the impact of erosion on soil microbial
communities and multiple soil functions remains unclear. This hinders our ability to assess …

The plastisphere of biodegradable and conventional microplastics from residues exhibit distinct microbial structure, network and function in plastic-mulching farmland

K Li, W Jia, L Xu, M Zhang, Y Huang - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The inhomogeneity of plastisphere and soil may result in different microbial communities,
thus potentially affecting soil functions. Biodegradable plastics offer an alternative to …

iNAP: an integrated network analysis pipeline for microbiome studies

K Feng, X Peng, Z Zhang, S Gu, Q He, W Shen, Z Wang… - imeta, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated network analysis pipeline (iNAP) is an online analysis pipeline for generating and
analyzing comprehensive ecological networks in microbiome studies. It is implemented in …

Soil microbial network complexity predicts ecosystem function along elevation gradients on the Tibetan Plateau

W Chen, J Wang, X Chen, Z Meng, R Xu… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The contributions of soil microbial diversity for the multifunctionality of ecosystem functions
remain little understood despite the well-known importance of soil microbial communities for …

Reduced microbial stability in the active layer is associated with carbon loss under alpine permafrost degradation

MH Wu, SY Chen, JW Chen, K Xue… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Permafrost degradation may induce soil carbon (C) loss, critical for global C cycling, and be
mediated by microbes. Despite larger C stored within the active layer of permafrost regions …