Microbial life represents the majority of Earth's biodiversity. Across disparate disciplines from
medicine to forestry, scientists continue to discover how the microbiome drives essential …

Most trees form symbioses with ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) which influence access to
growth-limiting soil resources. Mesocosm experiments repeatedly show that EMF species …

Soil fungi play indispensable roles in all ecosystems including the recycling of organic
matter and interactions with plants, both as symbionts and pathogens. Past observations …

Forest soil organic matter (SOM) is derived from both above-and belowground plant inputs,
with a significant portion of this plant-derived organic carbon being processed by fungal …

Forest soils are an important carbon (C) sink and critical component of the global C cycle.
Warmer temperatures and increased atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition are altering the …

Soil fungi are key regulators of forest carbon cycling and their responses to global change
have effects that ripple throughout ecosystems. Global changes are expected to push many …

Introduction Plant invasion can profoundly alter ecosystem processes driven by
microorganisms. The fundamental mechanisms linking microbial communities, functional …

The invasive plant Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) has spread throughout forest understory
and edge communities in much of North America, but its persistence, density, and impacts …

Aims Global warming, phosphorus deposition, and biological invasion have become major
environmental problems. Most studies have analyzed the main factors for the success of …

Orchids are potentially useful as ecological indicators because of their sensitivity to habitat
fragmentation and anthropogenic disturbance. While many studies explore the effect of …