Ecological importance of soil bacterivores for ecosystem functions

The application of ecological stoichiometry to plant–microbial–soil organic matter transformations

(2015) Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Metatranscriptomic census of active protists in soils

(2015) Stefan Geisen et al.   ISME Journal

Acanthamoeba everywhere: high diversity of Acanthamoeba in soils

(2014) Stefan Geisen et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality

(2014) C. Wagg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling

(2014) Maria Mooshammer et al.   Nature Communications

Stoichiometric imbalances between terrestrial decomposer communities and their resources: mechanisms and implications of microbial adaptations to their resources

(2014) Maria Mooshammer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Earthworm invasion alters enchytraeid community composition and individual biomass in northern hardwood forests of North America

(2013) Jiří Schlaghamerský et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

An experimental test of the hypothesis of non-homeostatic consumer stoichiometry in a plant litter-microbe system

(2013) Nicolas Fanin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Carbon use efficiency of microbial communities: stoichiometry, methodology and modelling

(2013) Robert L. Sinsabaugh et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Litter quality as driving factor for plant nutrition via grazing of protozoa on soil microorganisms

(2013) Robert Koller et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

An estimate of potential threats levels to soil biodiversity in EU

(2013) Ciro Gardi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Competition between roots and microorganisms for nitrogen: mechanisms and ecological relevance

(2013) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Protozoa enhance foraging efficiency of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for mineral nitrogen from organic matter in soil to the benefit of host plants

(2013) Robert Koller et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interactions between root hair length and arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation in phosphorus deficient barley (Hordeum vulgare)

(2013) Lawrie K. Brown et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

(2013) F. T. de Vries et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Protozoa stimulate N uptake and growth of arbuscular mycorrhizal plants

(2013) Robert Koller et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Fungal communities influence root exudation rates in pine seedlings

(2012) Ina C. Meier et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

A global analysis of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

(2012) Xiaofeng Xu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

(2012) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Rhizosphere microbial diversity as influenced by humic substance amendments and chemical composition of rhizodeposits

(2012) Edoardo Puglisi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION

Stimulatory effects of bacterial-feeding nematodes on plant growth vary with nematode species

(2012) Yanhong Cheng et al.   NEMATOLOGY

Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon-use efficiency in soils

(2012) Stefano Manzoni et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phosphorus acquisition from phytate depends on efficient bacterial grazing, irrespective of the mycorrhizal status of Pinus pinaster

(2012) Usman Irshad et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Measuring soil protist respiration and ingestion rates using stable isotopes

(2012) Felicity V. Crotty et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Predator richness increases the effect of prey diversity on prey yield

(2012) Muhammad Saleem et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity in phosphorus mobilisation and uptake in ectomycorrhizal fungi

(2011) Claude Plassard et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

The elemental stoichiometry of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and its relationships with organismic lifestyle and ecosystem structure and function: a review and perspectives

(2011) Jordi Sardans et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Ecological and evolutive implications of bacterial defences against predators

(2011) Alexandre Jousset   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Nematodes and protozoa affect plants differently, depending on soil nutrient status

(2011) Lisa Bjørnlund et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Acquisition of phosphorus and other poorly mobile nutrients by roots. Where do plant nutrition models fail?

(2011) Philippe Hinsinger et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Grazing by nematodes on rhizosphere bacteria enhances nitrate and phosphorus availability to Pinus pinaster seedlings

(2011) Usman Irshad et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Definition of priority areas for soil protection at a continental scale

(2011) M. G. Kibblewhite   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Predator-Prey Chemical Warfare Determines the Expression of Biocontrol Genes by Rhizosphere-Associated Pseudomonas fluorescens

(2010) A. Jousset et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Influence of bacterial-feeding nematodes on nitrification and the ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) community composition

(2010) Haifeng Xiao et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Closely related protist strains have different grazing impacts on natural bacterial communities

(2010) Edvard Glücksman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Interference between bacterial feeding nematodes and amoebae relies on innate and inducible mutual toxicity

(2010) Nina Neidig et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Macroecological patterns in soil communities

(2010) Thibaud Decaëns   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity in the dark

(2010) Diana H. Wall et al.   Nature Geoscience

Phosphorus nutrition of mycorrhizal trees

(2010) C. PLASSARD et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Protozoan-Induced Regulation of Cyclic Lipopeptide Biosynthesis Is an Effective Predation Defense Mechanism for Pseudomonas fluorescens

(2009) M. Mazzola et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Shifts in size, genetic structure and activity of the soil denitrifier community by nematode grazing

(2009) Djibril Djigal et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Soil amoebae rapidly change bacterial community composition in the rhizosphere of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2009) Katja Rosenberg et al.   ISME Journal

Predators promote defence of rhizosphere bacterial populations by selective feeding on non-toxic cheaters

(2009) Alexandre Jousset et al.   ISME Journal

Uptake of organic nitrogen by plants

(2009) Torgny Näsholm et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Intact amino acid uptake by northern hardwood and conifer trees

(2009) Anne Gallet-Budynek et al.   OECOLOGIA

Soil bacteria and protozoa affect root branching via effects on the auxin and cytokinin balance in plants

(2009) K. Krome et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Rhizosphere fauna: the functional and structural diversity of intimate interactions of soil fauna with plant roots

(2009) Michael Bonkowski et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Carbon flow in the rhizosphere: carbon trading at the soil–root interface

(2009) D. L. Jones et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The “soil microbial loop” is not always needed to explain protozoan stimulation of plants

(2009) Flemming Ekelund et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Grazing of protozoa on rhizosphere bacteria alters growth and reproduction of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2009) Kristin Krome et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stoichiometry and Nutrition of Plant Growth in Natural Communities

(2008) Göran I. Ågren   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Secondary metabolite production facilitates establishment of rhizobacteria by reducing both protozoan predation and the competitive effects of indigenous bacteria

(2008) A. Jousset et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Ecological aspects of mycorrhizal symbiosis: with special emphasis on the functional diversity of interactions involving the extraradical mycelium

(2008) R. D. Finlay   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Characterization of an Amino Acid Permease from the Endomycorrhizal Fungus Glomus mosseae

(2008) G. Cappellazzo et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Functional Role of Mucilage - Border Cells: A Complex Facilitating Protozoan Effects on Plant Growth

(2008) Sutharsan Somasundaram et al.   PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE

‘David and Goliath’ of the soil food web – Flagellates that kill nematodes

(2008) Lisa Bjørnlund et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Earthworms change the abundance and community structure of nematodes and protozoa in a maize residue amended rice–wheat rotation agro-ecosystem

(2008) Jun Tao et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil health in agricultural systems

(2007) M.G Kibblewhite et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomus intraradices, Glomeromycota) and amoebae (Acanthamoeba castellanii, Protozoa) in the rhizosphere of rice (Oryza sativa)

(2007) S. Herdler et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY