Soil Macroinvertebrate Presence Alters Microbial Community Composition and Activity in the Rhizosphere

Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant roots alter microbial functional genes supporting root litter decomposition

(2018) Shengjing Shi et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Cover crop root contributions to soil carbon in a no-till corn bioenergy cropping system

(2017) Emily E. Austin et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Amynthas agrestis invasion increases microbial biomass in Mid-Atlantic deciduous forests

(2017) Chih-Han Chang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Beyond microbes: Are fauna the next frontier in soil biogeochemical models?

(2016) A. Stuart Grandy et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Ecological importance of soil bacterivores for ecosystem functions

(2015) Jean Trap et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Biotic interactions mediate soil microbial feedbacks to climate change

(2015) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Data analysis for 16S microbial profiling from different benchtop sequencing platforms

(2014) Victor S. Pylro et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Earthworm density and biomass in relation to plant diversity and soil properties in a Palouse prairie remnant

(2013) S. Xu et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes

(2013) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Exotic earthworms alter soil microbial community composition and function

(2013) Mark A. Dempsey et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

(2012) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Root carbon flow from an invasive plant to belowground foodwebs

(2012) Mark A. Bradford et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

(2012) C. L. Schoch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Outcomes of fungal interactions are determined by soil invertebrate grazers

(2011) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Transitions in bacterial communities along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea

(2011) Daniel PR Herlemann et al.   ISME Journal

Endogeic earthworms shape bacterial functional communities and affect organic matter mineralization in a tropical soil

(2011) Laetitia Bernard et al.   ISME Journal

Species-specific effects of soil fauna on fungal foraging and decomposition

(2011) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   OECOLOGIA

Invertebrate grazing determines enzyme production by basidiomycete fungi

(2011) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Earthworms increase the ratio of bacteria to fungi in northern hardwood forest soils, primarily by eliminating the organic horizon

(2011) Mark A. Dempsey et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

The oribatid mite Scheloribates moestus (Acari: Oribatida) alters litter chemistry and nutrient cycling during decomposition

(2010) Kyle Wickings et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Decomposition of leaf litter from a native tree and an actinorhizal invasive across riparian habitats

(2009) Mary J. Harner et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Effect of the Earthworms Lumbricus terrestris and Aporrectodea caliginosa on Bacterial Diversity in Soil

(2009) Taras Y. Nechitaylo et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Phenol oxidase, peroxidase and organic matter dynamics of soil

(2009) Robert L. Sinsabaugh   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nitrogen deposition effects on soil organic matter chemistry are linked to variation in enzymes, ecosystems and size fractions

(2008) A. Stuart Grandy et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent

(2008) DIANA H. WALL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Comparison of the chemical alteration trajectory ofLiriodendron tulipifera L.leaf litter among forests with different earthworm abundance

(2008) Timothy R. Filley et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Effects of mixed cropping, earthworms (Pheretima sp.), and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomus mosseae) on plant yield, mycorrhizal colonization rate, soil microbial biomass, and nitrogenase activity of free-living rhizosphere bacteria

(2008) Mohammad Javad Zarea et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Carbon routes from decomposing plant residues and living roots into soil food webs assessed with 13C labelling

(2008) Sara Elfstrand et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

From peds to paradoxes: Linkages between soil biota and their influences on ecological processes

(2007) David C. Coleman   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY