Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome

N Fierer - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
Soil microorganisms are clearly a key component of both natural and managed ecosystems.
Despite the challenges of surviving in soil, a gram of soil can contain thousands of individual …

A systematic review of sources of variability and uncertainty in eDNA data for environmental monitoring

C Mathieu, SM Hermans, G Lear, TR Buckley… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is becoming a standard tool in environmental monitoring that
aims to quantify spatiotemporal variation for the measurement and prediction of ecosystem …

Relic DNA is abundant in soil and obscures estimates of soil microbial diversity

P Carini, PJ Marsden, JW Leff, EE Morgan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Extracellular DNA from dead microorganisms can persist in soil for weeks to years 1–3.
Although it is implicitly assumed that the microbial DNA recovered from soil predominantly …

Decreased occurrence of carbon cycle functions in microbial communities along with long-term secondary succession

Y Zhong, W Yan, R Wang, W Wang… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The succession of microbial community structure and function is a central ecological topic;
however, the mechanisms that underlie community assembly and promote temporal …

Rhizobial nitrogen fixation efficiency shapes endosphere bacterial communities and Medicago truncatula host growth

B Lagunas, L Richards, C Sergaki, J Burgess… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Despite the knowledge that the soil–plant–microbiome nexus is shaped by
interactions amongst its members, very little is known about how individual symbioses …

A preliminary examination of bacterial, archaeal, and fungal communities inhabiting different rhizocompartments of tomato plants under real-world environments

SA Lee, Y Kim, JM Kim, B Chu, JH Joa, MK Sang… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Plant microbiota is a key determinant of plant health and productivity. The composition and
structure of plant microbiota varies according to plant tissue and compartment, which are …

Use of untargeted metabolomics for assessing soil quality and microbial function

E Withers, PW Hill, DR Chadwick, DL Jones - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soils support a wide range of ecosystem services that underpin Earth system functioning. It
is therefore essential that we have robust approaches to evaluate how anthropogenic …

A comparison of the ability of PLFA and 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding to resolve soil community change and predict ecosystem functions

KH Orwin, IA Dickie, R Holdaway, JR Wood - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil bacterial community structure has traditionally been measured using phospholipid fatty
acid (PLFA) profiling. However, with the development of high-throughput sequencing …

Effects of spatial variability and relic DNA removal on the detection of temporal dynamics in soil microbial communities

P Carini, M Delgado-Baquerizo, ELS Hinckley… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Few studies have comprehensively investigated the temporal variability in soil microbial
communities despite widespread recognition that the belowground environment is dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of soil chemistry on branched tetraether lipids in mid-and high latitude soils: Implications for brGDGT-based paleothermometry

C De Jonge, EE Kuramae, D Radujković… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (BrGDGTs) are a suite of orphan bacterial
membrane lipids commonly used as paleo-environmental proxies for mean annual air …