Defending Earth's terrestrial microbiome

C Averill, MA Anthony, P Baldrian, F Finkbeiner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Inferring microbiota functions from taxonomic genes: a review

C Djemiel, PA Maron, S Terrat, S Dequiedt… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Deciphering microbiota functions is crucial to predict ecosystem sustainability in response to
global change. High-throughput sequencing at the individual or community level has …

GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies

T Větrovský, D Morais, P Kohout, C Lepinay, C Algora… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition,
symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high …

Current insight into traditional and modern methods in fungal diversity estimates

AK Gautam, RK Verma, S Avasthi, Sushma, Y Bohra… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fungi are an important and diverse component in various ecosystems. The methods to
identify different fungi are an important step in any mycological study. Classical methods of …

High‐throughput identification and diagnostics of pathogens and pests: overview and practical recommendations

L Tedersoo, R Drenkhan, S Anslan… - Molecular ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput identification technologies provide efficient tools for understanding the
ecology and functioning of microorganisms. Yet, these methods have been only rarely used …

Distinct assembly processes and microbial communities constrain soil organic carbon formation

MA Anthony, TW Crowther, DS Maynard… - One earth, 2020 - cell.com
Soil stores more carbon (C) than all vegetation and the atmosphere combined. Soil C stocks
are broadly shaped by temperature, moisture, soil physical characteristics, vegetation, and …

Urbanization and edge effects interact to drive mutualism breakdown and the rise of unstable pathogenic communities in forest soil

C Tatsumi, KF Atherton, SM Garvey… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Temperate forests are threatened by urbanization and fragmentation, with over
20%(118,300 km2) of US forest land projected to be subsumed by urban land development …

Plant communities mediate the interactive effects of invasion and drought on soil microbial communities

C Fahey, A Koyama, PM Antunes, K Dunfield… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Soil microbiomes could play a major role in ecosystem responses to escalating
anthropogenic global change. However, we currently have a poor understanding of how soil …

Studies on fungal communities and functional guilds shift in tea continuous cropping soils by high-throughput sequencing

Y Li, Z Li, Y Arafat, W Lin - Annals of Microbiology, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Although soil fungal communities are considered important in tea orchard
ecosystems, experimental research on their responses to the long-term continuous …

Response of fungal diversity, community composition, and functions to nutrients management in red soil

MA Muneer, X Huang, W Hou, Y Zhang, Y Cai… - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Soil fungi play a critical role in plant performance and soil nutrient cycling. However, the
understanding of soil fungal community composition and functions in response to different …