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(2019) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo   ISME Journal

Drought sensitivity of aboveground productivity in Leymus chinensis meadow steppe depends on drought timing

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The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity

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Climate change effects on plant-soil feedbacks and consequences for biodiversity and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems

(2019) Francisco I. Pugnaire et al.   Science Advances

Rare microbial taxa as the major drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in long-term fertilized soils

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An increase in precipitation exacerbates negative effects of nitrogen deposition on soil cations and soil microbial communities in a temperate forest

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(2018) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents

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A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

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Decreasing soil microbial diversity is associated with decreasing microbial biomass under nitrogen addition

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Experimentally testing the species-habitat size relationship on soil bacteria: A proof of concept

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The legacy of mixed planting and precipitation reduction treatments on soil microbial activity, biomass and community composition in a young tree plantation

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Responses of the soil microbial community to nitrogen fertilizer regimes and historical exposure to extreme weather events: Flooding or prolonged-drought

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Plant community and soil chemistry responses to long-term nitrogen inputs drive changes in alpine bacterial communities

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

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Rainfall variability and nitrogen addition synergistically reduce plant diversity in a restored tallgrass prairie

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Plant and soil fungal but not soil bacterial communities are linked in long-term fertilized grassland

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Precipitation overrides warming in mediating soil nitrogen pools in an alpine grassland ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau

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Climatic conditions, soil fertility and atmospheric nitrogen deposition largely determine the structure and functioning of microbial communities in biocrust-dominated Mediterranean drylands

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Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands

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Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

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Precipitation modifies the effects of warming and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities in northern Chinese grasslands

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Bacteria and Fungi Respond Differently to Multifactorial Climate Change in a Temperate Heathland, Traced with 13C-Glycine and FACE CO2

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Effects of mowing on fungal endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in subalpine grasslands

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Nitrogen deposition weakens plant-microbe interactions in grassland ecosystems

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NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED

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