The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry

Consistent trade-offs in fungal trait expression across broad spatial scales

(2019) Daniel S. Maynard et al.   Nature Microbiology

Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

(2019) B. S. Steidinger et al.   NATURE

Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

(2019) Johan van den Hoogen et al.   NATURE

Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

(2019) Ricardo Cavicchioli et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Temperature sensitivities of extracellular enzyme V max and K m across thermal environments

(2018) Steven D. Allison et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Association of ectomycorrhizal trees with high carbon-to-nitrogen ratio soils across temperate forests is driven by smaller nitrogen not larger carbon stocks

(2018) Kai Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

(2018) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SCIENCE

Climate shapes the protein abundance of dominant soil bacteria

(2018) Felipe Bastida et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The detrital input and removal treatment (DIRT) network: Insights into soil carbon stabilization

(2018) Kate Lajtha et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Model structures amplify uncertainty in predicted soil carbon responses to climate change

(2018) Zheng Shi et al.   Nature Communications

Drought Legacy Effects on the Composition of Soil Fungal and Prokaryote Communities

(2018) Annelein Meisner et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Continental-scale nitrogen pollution is shifting forest mycorrhizal associations and soil carbon stocks

(2018) Colin Averill et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome

(2018) Mohammad Bahram et al.   NATURE

The evolution and application of the reverse Michaelis-Menten equation

(2018) Daryl L. Moorhead et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbes drive global soil nitrogen mineralization and availability

(2018) Zhaolei Li et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drought increases the frequencies of fungal functional genes related to carbon and nitrogen acquisition

(2018) Kathleen K. Treseder et al.   PLoS One

Cross-biome patterns in soil microbial respiration predictable from evolutionary theory on thermal adaptation

(2018) Mark A. Bradford et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Inherent Conflicts in Developing Soil Microbial Inoculants

(2018) Laura M. Kaminsky et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Carbon cycle confidence and uncertainty: Exploring variation among soil biogeochemical models

(2017) William R. Wieder et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Historical climate controls soil respiration responses to current soil moisture

(2017) Christine V. Hawkes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Taxonomic and functional patterns across soil microbial communities of global biomes

(2017) Melline Fontes Noronha et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Decoupling direct and indirect effects of temperature on decomposition

(2017) Madeleine A. Rubenstein et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Consequences of drought tolerance traits for microbial decomposition in the DEMENT model

(2017) Steven D. Allison et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Modeling Global Soil Carbon and Soil Microbial Carbon by Integrating Microbial Processes into the Ecosystem Process Model TRIPLEX-GHG

(2017) Kefeng Wang et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Model prediction of biome-specific global soil respiration from 1960 to 2012

(2017) Zhengyong Zhao et al.   Earths Future

Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils

(2017) Kelly S. Ramirez et al.   Nature Microbiology

A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition

(2017) Mark A. Bradford et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

(2017) Tomislav Hengl et al.   PLoS One

Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

(2016) Yiqi Luo et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

(2016) T. W. Crowther et al.   NATURE

Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect

(2016) C. Terrer et al.   SCIENCE

Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

(2016) Jizhong Zhou et al.   Nature Communications

Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratios Are Linked to Altered Carbon Cycling

(2016) Ashish A. Malik et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A new view of the tree of life

(2016) Laura A. Hug et al.   Nature Microbiology

Soil Respiration and Bacterial Structure and Function after 17 Years of a Reciprocal Soil Transplant Experiment

(2016) Ben Bond-Lamberty et al.   PLoS One

Climate history shapes contemporary leaf litter decomposition

(2015) Michael S. Strickland et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Modeling Nitrous Oxide Production and Reduction in Soil through Explicit Representation of Denitrification Enzyme Kinetics

(2015) Jianqiu Zheng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microbial models with data-driven parameters predict stronger soil carbon responses to climate change

(2015) Oleksandra Hararuk et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fungal Traits That Drive Ecosystem Dynamics on Land

(2015) Kathleen K. Treseder et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

(2015) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Geoscience

Ectomycorrhizal fungi decompose soil organic matter using oxidative mechanisms adapted from saprotrophic ancestors

(2015) Firoz Shah et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands

(2015) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social dynamics within decomposer communities lead to nitrogen retention and organic matter build-up in soils

(2015) Christina Kaiser et al.   Nature Communications

Improved modelling of soil nitrogen losses

(2015) Qing Zhu et al.   Nature Climate Change

A microbial functional group-based module for simulating methane production and consumption: Application to an incubated permafrost soil

(2015) Xiaofeng Xu et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Land-use legacies regulate decomposition dynamics following bioenergy crop conversion

(2014) Cynthia M. Kallenbach et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Incorporating microbial ecology concepts into global soil mineralization models to improve predictions of carbon and nitrogen fluxes

(2014) Yuki Fujita et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Evaluating soil biogeochemistry parameterizations in Earth system models with observations

(2014) William R. Wieder et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Predicting the responsiveness of soil biodiversity to deforestation: a cross-biome study

(2014) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microbial dormancy improves development and experimental validation of ecosystem model

(2014) Gangsheng Wang et al.   ISME Journal

Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage

(2014) Colin Averill et al.   NATURE

Ectomycorrhizal fungi - potential organic matter decomposers, yet not saprotrophs

(2014) Björn D. Lindahl et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome

(2014) J. M. Talbot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

(2014) K. S. Ramirez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on soil microbial communities in oak forests persist for more than 100 years

(2014) A. Fichtner et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

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

Microbe-driven turnover offsets mineral-mediated storage of soil carbon under elevated CO2

(2014) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   Nature Climate Change

Untangling the fungal niche: the trait-based approach

(2014) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Differences in fungal and bacterial physiology alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling: insights from meta-analysis and theoretical models

(2013) Bonnie G. Waring et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Global drivers and patterns of microbial abundance in soil

(2013) Hector M. Serna-Chavez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The spatial scaling of saprotrophic fungal beta diversity in decomposing leaves

(2013) Larry M. Feinstein et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Meta-analysis of deep-sequenced fungal communities indicates limited taxon sharing between studies and the presence of biogeographic patterns

(2013) Anjuli Meiser et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The mycorrhizal-associated nutrient economy: a new framework for predicting carbon-nutrient couplings in temperate forests

(2013) Richard P. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

(2013) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Climate Change

Mapping the niche space of soil microorganisms using taxonomy and traits

(2012) Jay T. Lennon et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Global biogeography of highly diverse protistan communities in soil

(2012) Scott T Bates et al.   ISME Journal

Towards global patterns in the diversity and community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi

(2012) LEHO TEDERSOO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Stefano Manzoni et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

(2012) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trait-Based Representation of Biological Nitrification: Model Development, Testing, and Predicted Community Composition

(2012) Nicholas J. Bouskill et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Functional Ecology of Free-Living Nitrogen Fixation: A Contemporary Perspective

(2011) Sasha C. Reed et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Legacy effects overwhelm the short-term effects of exotic plant invasion and restoration on soil microbial community structure, enzyme activities, and nitrogen cycling

(2011) Kenneth J. Elgersma et al.   OECOLOGIA

Molecular study of worldwide distribution and diversity of soil animals

(2011) T. Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global diversity and distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

(2011) Stephanie N. Kivlin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Macroecological patterns in soil communities

(2010) Thibaud Decaëns   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil

(2010) Scott T Bates et al.   ISME Journal

Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology

(2010) Steven D. Allison et al.   Nature Geoscience

Identifying multiple spatiotemporal patterns: A refined view on terrestrial photosynthetic activity

(2010) Miguel D. Mahecha et al.   PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS

Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale

(2009) C. L. Lauber et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Leaf litter decomposition—Estimates of global variability based on Yasso07 model

(2009) M. Tuomi et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition

(2009) Michael S. Strickland et al.   ECOLOGY

Global patterns in belowground communities

(2009) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Idiosyncrasy and overdominance in the structure of natural communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: is there a role for stochastic processes?

(2009) Alex J. Dumbrell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Coupling a genome-scale metabolic model with a reactive transport model to describein situuranium bioremediation

(2009) Timothy D. Scheibe et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS