Forest soil bacteria: diversity, involvement in ecosystem processes, and response to global change

S Lladó, R López-Mondéjar… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The ecology of forest soils is an important field of research due to the role of forests as
carbon sinks. Consequently, a significant amount of information has been accumulated …

Forest microbiome: diversity, complexity and dynamics

P Baldrian - FEMS Microbiology reviews, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Globally, forests represent highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks where soil
organic matter is formed from residuals after biomass decomposition as well as from …

The role of microbial community in the decomposition of leaf litter and deadwood

A Bani, S Pioli, M Ventura, P Panzacchi, L Borruso… - Applied soil ecology, 2018 - Elsevier
Leaf litter and deadwood have important roles in the forest ecosystems, providing shelter for
several organisms, preventing erosion and microclimate fluctuations. Their decomposition is …

Unrevealing the potential of microbes in decomposition of organic matter and release of carbon in the ecosystem

T Raza, MF Qadir, KS Khan, NS Eash, M Yousuf… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic matter decomposition is a biochemical process with consequences affecting climate
change and ecosystem productivity. Once decomposition begins, C is lost as CO 2 or …

Bacteroidetes bacteria in the soil: Glycan acquisition, enzyme secretion, and gliding motility

J Larsbrink, LS McKee - Advances in applied microbiology, 2020 - Elsevier
The secretion of extracellular enzymes by soil microbes is rate-limiting in the recycling of
biomass. Fungi and bacteria compete and collaborate for nutrients in the soil, with wide …

Decomposer food web in a deciduous forest shows high share of generalist microorganisms and importance of microbial biomass recycling

R López-Mondéjar, V Brabcová, M Štursová… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Forest soils represent important terrestrial carbon (C) pools where C is primarily fixed in the
plant-derived biomass but it flows further through the biomass of fungi and bacteria before it …

Dominant plants affect litter decomposition mainly through modifications of the soil microbial community

X Yang, X Wang, S Xiao, Z Liu, X Zhou, G Du… - Soil Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Litter decomposition is a key step in biogeochemical cycling and energy flow underlying
ecosystem function. It is well established that dominant plants influence litter decomposition …

Bacterial tradeoffs in growth rate and extracellular enzymes

KI Ramin, SD Allison - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Like larger organisms, bacteria possess traits, or phenotypic characteristics, that influence
growth and impact ecosystem processes. Still, it remains unclear how these traits are …

Metagenomics and stable isotope probing reveal the complementary contribution of fungal and bacterial communities in the recycling of dead biomass in forest soil

R López-Mondéjar, V Tláskal, T Větrovský… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Forest soils represent important terrestrial carbon (C) pools, where C is primarily fixed in
plant biomass and then is incorporated in the biomass of fungi and bacteria. Although …

Microbial succession on decomposing root litter in a drought-prone Scots pine forest

C Herzog, M Hartmann, B Frey, B Stierli… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Decomposition is a major flux of the carbon cycle in forest soils and understanding the
involved processes is a key for budgeting carbon turnover. Decomposition is constrained by …