Interactions of Microhabitat and Time Control Grassland Bacterial and Fungal Composition

Earlier plant growth helps compensate for reduced carbon fixation after 13 years of warming

(2019) Daniel E. Winkler et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Climatic Sensitivity of Dryland Soil CO2 Fluxes Differs Dramatically with Biological Soil Crust Successional State

(2018) Colin L. Tucker et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Photoautotrophic organisms control microbial abundance, diversity, and physiology in different types of biological soil crusts

(2018) Stefanie Maier et al.   ISME Journal

Divergent assemblage patterns and driving forces for bacterial and fungal communities along a glacier forefield chronosequence

(2018) Yonglei Jiang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2018) Annelein Meisner et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life

(2018) Donovan H Parks et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Soil resources and element stocks in drylands to face global issues

(2018) César Plaza et al.   Scientific Reports

IDTAXA: a novel approach for accurate taxonomic classification of microbiome sequences

(2018) Adithya Murali et al.   Microbiome

Aerobiology and passive restoration of biological soil crusts

(2018) Steven D. Warren et al.   AEROBIOLOGIA

Chronic Physical Disturbance Substantially Alters the Response of Biological Soil Crusts to a Wetting Pulse, as Characterized by Metatranscriptomic Sequencing

(2018) Blaire Steven et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial, fungal, and plant communities exhibit no biomass or compositional response to two years of simulated nitrogen deposition in a semiarid grassland

(2017) Theresa A. McHugh et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fungal and bacterial contributions to nitrogen cycling in cheatgrass-invaded and uninvaded native sagebrush soils of the western USA

(2017) Nicole M. DeCrappeo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Biocrusts enhance soil fertility and Bromus tectorum growth, and interact with warming to influence germination

(2017) Scott Ferrenberg et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Phylogenetic revision of Camarosporium ( Pleosporineae , Dothideomycetes ) and allied genera

(2017) D.N. Wanasinghe et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World

(2016) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Temporal and Spatial Variation of Soil Bacteria Richness, Composition, and Function in a Neotropical Rainforest

(2016) Stephanie N Kivlin et al.   PLoS One

Successional and seasonal variations in soil and litter microbial community structure and function during tropical postagricultural forest regeneration: a multiyear study

(2015) A. Peyton Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temporal variation overshadows the response of leaf litter microbial communities to simulated global change

(2015) Kristin L Matulich et al.   ISME Journal

C3 and C4 plant responses to increased temperatures and altered monsoonal precipitation in a cool desert on the Colorado Plateau, USA

(2015) Timothy M. Wertin et al.   OECOLOGIA

Continental-scale distributions of dust-associated bacteria and fungi

(2015) Albert Barberán et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deterministic processes vary during community assembly for ecologically dissimilar taxa

(2015) Jeff R. Powell et al.   Nature Communications

Soil bacterial and fungal community responses to nitrogen addition across soil depth and microhabitat in an arid shrubland

(2015) Rebecca C. Mueller et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biodiversity of soil cyanobacteria in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert, Chile

(2014) Dominik J. Patzelt et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Do bacterial and fungal communities assemble differently during primary succession?

(2014) S. K. Schmidt et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Warming, competition, andBromus tectorumpopulation growth across an elevation gradient

(2014) Aldo Compagnoni et al.   Ecosphere

PEAR: a fast and accurate Illumina Paired-End reAd mergeR

(2013) J. Zhang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Diversity and Patch-Size Distributions of Biological Soil Crusts Regulate Dryland Ecosystem Multifunctionality

(2013) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Dryland soil microbial communities display spatial biogeographic patterns associated with soil depth and soil parent material

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to extreme desiccation and rewetting

(2013) Romain L Barnard et al.   ISME Journal

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Going back to the roots: the microbial ecology of the rhizosphere

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

A Metagenomic Framework for the Study of Airborne Microbial Communities

(2013) Shibu Yooseph et al.   PLoS One

Dynamics of the bacterial community structure in the rhizosphere of a maize cultivar

(2013) Xiangzhen Li et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Common and distinguishing features of the bacterial and fungal communities in biological soil crusts and shrub root zone soils

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Spatial and temporal patterns of dust emissions (2004–2012) in semi-arid landscapes, southeastern Utah, USA

(2013) Cody B. Flagg et al.   Aeolian Research

Exploration ofDeinococcus-Thermusmolecular diversity by novel group-specific PCR primers

(2013) Nicolas Theodorakopoulos et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks

(2012) Paolo D’Odorico et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

The evolution of root hairs and rhizoids

(2012) Victor A.S. Jones et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Dryland biological soil crust cyanobacteria show unexpected decreases in abundance under long-term elevated CO2

(2012) Blaire Steven et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Patterns of diversity for fungal assemblages of biological soil crusts from the southwestern United States

(2012) Scott T. Bates et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Ecology of Root Colonizing Massilia (Oxalobacteraceae)

(2012) Maya Ofek et al.   PLoS One

Response of Biological Soil Crust Diazotrophs to Season, Altered Summer Precipitation, and Year-Round Increased Temperature in an Arid Grassland of the Colorado Plateau, USA

(2012) Chris M. Yeager et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Primary biological aerosol particles in the atmosphere: a review

(2012) VivianeR. Després et al.   TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY

Response and resilience of soil biocrust bacterial communities to chronic physical disturbance in arid shrublands

(2011) Cheryl R Kuske et al.   ISME Journal

Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain

(2011) F.T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Niche specialization of terrestrial archaeal ammonia oxidizers

(2011) C. Gubry-Rangin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Drought-resistant fungi control soil organic matter decomposition and its response to temperature

(2010) J.C. YUSTE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2010) Johannes Rousk et al.   ISME Journal

Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover

(2010) Scott T. Bates et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Drying–Rewetting Cycles Affect Fungal and Bacterial Growth Differently in an Arable Soil

(2010) Azadeh Bapiri et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

Archaeal populations in biological soil crusts from arid lands in North America

(2009) Tanya Soule et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Influence of plant developmental stage on microbial community structure and activity in the rhizosphere of three field crops

(2008) Ashley Houlden et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Soil Microbial Responses to Temporal Variations of Moisture and Temperature in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

(2008) Colin Bell et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Soil amendment effects on the exotic annual grass Bromus tectorum L. and facilitation of its growth by the native perennial grass Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth

(2008) Jayne Belnap et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Moisture pulses, trace gas emissions and soil C and N in cheatgrass and native grass-dominated sagebrush-steppe in Wyoming, USA

(2008) U. Norton et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Temporal variation in soil microbial communities in Alpine tundra

(2007) Robert G. Björk et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY