Trends in microbial community composition and function by soil depth

D Naylor, R McClure, J Jansson - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microbial communities play important roles in soil health, contributing to processes such as
the turnover of organic matter and nutrient cycling. As soil edaphic properties such as …

Dispersing misconceptions and identifying opportunities for the use of'omics' in soil microbial ecology

JI Prosser - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
Technological advances are enabling the sequencing of environmental DNA and RNA at
increasing depth and with decreasing costs. Metagenomic and transcriptomic analysis of …

Temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition is linked with a K‐selected microbial community

H Li, S Yang, MV Semenov, F Yao, J Ye… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature sensitivity (Q10) of soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition is a crucial
parameter to predict the fate of soil carbon (C) under global warming. Nonetheless, the …

Study on the influence of soil microbial community on the long-term heavy metal pollution of different land use types and depth layers in mine

X Zhao, J Huang, J Lu, Y Sun - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
To understand the importance of the response of soil microbial communities to the stress of
heavy metals around mining areas by assessing the feedback of soil ecosystems in different …

Driving forces of soil bacterial community structure, diversity, and function in temperate grasslands and forests

K Kaiser, B Wemheuer, V Korolkow, F Wemheuer… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Soil bacteria provide a large range of ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling. Despite
their important role in soil systems, compositional and functional responses of bacterial …

Effects of heavy metals/metalloids and soil properties on microbial communities in farmland in the vicinity of a metals smelter

X Hu, J Wang, Y Lv, X Liu, J Zhong, X Cui… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microorganisms play a fundamental role in biogeochemical cycling and are highly sensitive
to environmental factors, including the physiochemical properties of the soils and the …

Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

CJ Adler, K Dobney, LS Weyrich, J Kaidonis… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The importance of commensal microbes for human health is increasingly recognized,,,,, yet
the impacts of evolutionary changes in human diet and culture on commensal microbiota …

Digging deeper to find unique microbial communities: the strong effect of depth on the structure of bacterial and archaeal communities in soil

KG Eilers, S Debenport, S Anderson, N Fierer - Soil Biology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Microorganisms exist throughout the soil profile and those microorganisms living in sub-
surface horizons likely play key roles in nutrient cycling and soil formation. However, the …

Rhizosphere-associated bacterial network structure and spatial distribution differ significantly from bulk soil in wheat crop fields

K Fan, C Cardona, Y Li, YU Shi, X Xiang… - Soil Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The spatial distribution of bacteria in bulk soil has been well studied, but little is known about
the bacterial biogeography in the rhizosphere of crops. Here, we investigated bacterial …

Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season

S Yang, H Wu, Z Wang, MV Semenov, J Ye… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The temperature sensitivity (Q 10) of soil respiration (Rs) is crucial to assess the carbon (C)
budget of terrestrial ecosystems under global warming. The Q 10 changes along a climatic …