Abstract Background In the Mediterranean climate, plants have evolved under conditions of
low soil-water and nutrient availabilities and have acquired a series of adaptive traits that, in …

Knowledge of spatiotemporal patterns in species distribution is fundamental to
understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes shaping communities. The …

Fungi are the agents primarily responsible for the transformation of plant‐derived carbon in
terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known of their responses to the seasonal changes …

Approaches for the cultivation-independent analysis of microbial communities are
summarized as meta'omics, which predominantly includes metagenomic,-transcriptomic …

Soil microclimate is a potentially important regulator of the composition of plant‐associated
fungal communities in climates with significant drought periods. Here, we investigated the …

Bacterial communities living in forest soils contribute to the decomposition of organic matter
and the recycling of nutrients in these ecosystems and form one of the most diverse habitats …

This study focuses on the biological and morphological development of humus profiles in
forested Italian Alpine soils as a function of climate. Humus form description, systematic …

A combined soil bacterial and fungal community survey was conducted for a copper tailings
dam in the Chinese Loess Plateau. We investigated the seasonal differences in the …

Ectomycorrhizal fungi are important components of the carbon and nitrogen cycles in forest
soils and improve the nutrient uptake of many plants. There have been few assessments of …

Fungi are the main organisms responsible for plant biomass degradation in soils. While
many studies have evaluated the impact of tree species on the taxonomic diversity of soil …