Drivers of microbial community structure in forest soils

S Lladó, R López-Mondéjar, P Baldrian - Applied microbiology and …, 2018 - Springer
Forests are essential biomes for global biogeochemical cycles, and belowground
microorganisms have a key role in providing relevant ecosystem services. To predict the …

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 …

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 …

The temporal and spatial dimensions of plant–soil feedbacks

YA Chung - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Feedbacks between plants and soil microbes form a keystone to terrestrial community and
ecosystem dynamics. Recent advances in dissecting the spatial and temporal dynamics of …

Soil pH and organic carbon properties drive soil bacterial communities in surface and deep layers along an elevational gradient

Q Tian, Y Jiang, Y Tang, Y Wu, Z Tang… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Elevational gradients strongly affect the spatial distribution and structure of soil bacterial
communities. However, our understanding of the effects and determining factors is still …

Dispersal limitation relative to environmental filtering governs the vertical small‐scale assembly of soil microbiomes during restoration

W Chen, S Jiao, Q Li, N Du - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Uncovering the plant‐soil feedback mechanisms underlying the assembly of belowground
microbial communities is essential for terrestrial biodiversity conservation. However, little is …

Environmental DNA assessment of airborne plant and fungal seasonal diversity

E Banchi, CG Ametrano, E Tordoni, D Stanković… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding and metagenomics analyses can improve
taxonomic resolution in biodiversity studies. Only recently, these techniques have been …

Effects of tree species and soil properties on the composition and diversity of the soil bacterial community following afforestation

J Liu, P Dang, Y Gao, H Zhu, H Zhu, F Zhao… - Forest Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Afforestation with single and mixed tree species on cropland alters soil properties and the
composition and diversity of soil bacterial community. We investigated changes in soil …

Tree species composition and soil properties in pure and mixed beech-conifer stands drive soil fungal communities

LE Likulunga, CAR Pérez, D Schneider… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil fungi, especially the functional guilds of saprotrophs and symbiotrophs, play a central
role in ecosystem processes such as decomposition and plant nutrient acquisition. Fungal …

Tree species shape soil bacterial community structure and function in temperate deciduous forests

A Dukunde, D Schneider, M Schmidt… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Amplicon-based analysis of 16S rRNA genes and transcripts was used to assess the effect
of tree species composition on soil bacterial community structure and function in a temperate …