Microbial Composition and Wood Decomposition Rates Vary with Microclimate From the Ground to the Canopy in a Tropical Forest

Suspended Dead Wood Decomposes Slowly in the Tropics, with Microbial Decay Greater than Termite Decay

(2019) Stephanie Law et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Dead Wood Necromass in a Moist Tropical Forest: Stocks, Fluxes, and Spatiotemporal Variability

(2019) Evan M. Gora et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Litter chemistry influences decomposition through activity of specific microbial functional guilds

(2018) Jennifer M. Bhatnagar et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

When a tree falls: Controls on wood decay predict standing dead tree fall and new risks in changing forests

(2018) Brad Oberle et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial contributions to delignification and lignocellulose degradation in forest soils with metagenomic and quantitative stable isotope probing

(2018) Roland C. Wilhelm et al.   ISME Journal

Ecological and functional effects of fungal endophytes on wood decomposition

(2017) Lauren C. Cline et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Dispersal alters bacterial diversity and composition in a natural community

(2017) Michaeline B N Albright et al.   ISME Journal

How do environmental conditions affect the deadwood decomposition of European beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.)?

(2016) Tomáš Přívětivý et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

(2016) Nhu H. Nguyen et al.   Fungal Ecology

Role of soil texture, clay mineralogy, location, and temperature in coarse wood decomposition-a mesocosm experiment

(2016) Cinzia Fissore et al.   Ecosphere

Factors controlling bark decomposition and its role in wood decomposition in five tropical tree species

(2016) Gbadamassi G. O. Dossa et al.   Scientific Reports

Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

(2015) Tadashi Fukami   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Ecology and Natural History of Foliar Bacteria with a Focus on Tropical Forests and Agroecosystems

(2015) Eric A. Griffin et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

Neglected role of fungal community composition in explaining variation in wood decay rates

(2015) A. van der Wal et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil bacterial communities are shaped by temporal and environmental filtering: evidence from a long-term chronosequence

(2015) Zachary Freedman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A deteriorating state of affairs: How endogenous and exogenous factors determine plant decay rates

(2015) Amy E. Zanne et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Wood decomposition as influenced by invertebrates

(2014) Michael D. Ulyshen   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Environmental filtering affects soil fungal community composition more than dispersal limitation at regional scales

(2014) Stephanie N. Kivlin et al.   Fungal Ecology

Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest

(2014) S. W. Kembel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

(2014) Mark A. Bradford et al.   Nature Climate Change

Patterns and Processes of Microbial Community Assembly

(2013) D. R. Nemergut et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Digging the New York City Skyline: Soil Fungal Communities in Green Roofs and City Parks

(2013) Krista L. McGuire et al.   PLoS One

Kraft lignin biodegradation by Novosphingobium sp. B-7 and analysis of the degradation process

(2012) Yuehui Chen et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies

(2012) Anna Klindworth et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Phylogenetic clustering increases with elevation for microbes

(2012) Jianjun Wang et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

(2011) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Decomposition of fine woody debris in a deciduous forest in North Carolina1

(2011) Becky G. Fasth et al.   JOURNAL OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL SOCIETY

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Comparison of Normalization Methods for Construction of Large, Multiplex Amplicon Pools for Next-Generation Sequencing

(2010) J. K. Harris et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Soil fertility and fine root dynamics in response to 4 years of nutrient (N, P, K) fertilization in a lowland tropical moist forest, Panama

(2010) JOSEPH B. YAVITT et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

The emerging role for bacteria in lignin degradation and bio-product formation

(2010) Timothy DH Bugg et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The trait contribution to wood decomposition rates of 15 Neotropical tree species

(2010) Koert G. van Geffen et al.   ECOLOGY

Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities

(2010) Tadashi Fukami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil

(2010) Johannes Rousk et al.   ISME Journal

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks

(2010) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Fungal growth on a common wood substrate across a tropical elevation gradient: Temperature sensitivity, community composition, and potential for above-ground decomposition

(2010) Courtney L. Meier et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

(2009) WILLIAM K. CORNWELL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Linking Microbial Community Structure and Function to Seasonal Differences in Soil Moisture and Temperature in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

(2009) Colin W. Bell et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Saprotrophic cord systems: dispersal mechanisms in space and time

(2009) Lynne Boddy et al.   MYCOSCIENCE

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

(2008) James T. Weedon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

(2008) J. A. Bryant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA