Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences

Comparing carbon and nitrogen stocks in paddy and upland soils: Accumulation, stabilization mechanisms, and environmental drivers

(2021) Liang Wei et al.   GEODERMA

Shifts in the bacterial community along with root-associated compartments of maize as affected by goethite

(2020) Peduruhewa H Jeewani et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient

(2020) Congcong Shen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Elevated temperature shifts soil N cycling from microbial immobilization to enhanced mineralization, nitrification and denitrification across global terrestrial ecosystems

(2020) Zhongmin Dai et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rusty sink of rhizodeposits and associated keystone microbiomes

(2020) Peduruhewa H. Jeewani et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Meta-analysis shows positive effects of plant diversity on microbial biomass and respiration

(2019) Chen Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

(2019) Marcell K. Peters et al.   NATURE

Soil microbiome mediates positive plant diversity‐productivity relationships in late successional grassland species

(2019) Guangzhou Wang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impact of soil leachate on microbial biomass and diversity affected by plant diversity

(2019) Chao Zhang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Community transcriptomics reveals drainage effects on paddy soil microbiome across all three domains of life

(2019) Rehab Z. Abdallah et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reveals the carbon and phosphorus limitations of microbial metabolisms in the rhizosphere and bulk soils in alpine ecosystems

(2019) Yongxing Cui et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Ashes to ashes: Characterization of organic matter in Andosols along a 3400 m elevation transect at Mount Kilimanjaro using analytical pyrolysis

(2019) Joscha N. Becker et al.   CATENA

Long-term nitrogen fertilization decreases bacterial diversity and favors the growth of Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria in agro-ecosystems across the globe

(2018) Zhongmin Dai et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Teatime on Mount Kilimanjaro: Assessing climate and land-use effects on litter decomposition and stabilization using the Tea Bag Index

(2018) Joscha N. Becker et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

dbCAN2: a meta server for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation

(2018) Han Zhang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

(2018) Andrew T. Nottingham et al.   ECOLOGY

Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome

(2018) Mohammad Bahram et al.   NATURE

Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

(2018) Ashish A. Malik et al.   Nature Communications

Metatranscriptomics reveals a differential temperature effect on the structural and functional organization of the anaerobic food web in rice field soil

(2018) Jingjing Peng et al.   Microbiome

Review and synthesis of the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on soil processes: No changes in pools, but increased fluxes and accelerated cycles

(2018) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Carbon input by roots into the soil: Quantification of rhizodeposition from root to ecosystem scale

(2017) Johanna Pausch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome

(2017) Noah Fierer   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Priming effects in biochar enriched soils using a three-source-partitioning approach: 14 C labelling and 13 C natural abundance

(2017) Yu Luo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial Taxa Distribution Is Associated with Ecological Trophic Cascades along an Elevation Gradient

(2017) Fei Yao et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Long-Term Warming Alters Carbohydrate Degradation Potential in Temperate Forest Soils

(2016) Grace Pold et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Land use affects soil biochemical properties in Mt. Kilimanjaro region

(2016) Kevin Z. Mganga et al.   CATENA

Greenhouse gas emissions from soils—A review

(2016) Cornelius Oertel et al.   CHEMIE DER ERDE-GEOCHEMISTRY

Abundance and Diversity of Bacterial, Archaeal, and Fungal Communities Along an Altitudinal Gradient in Alpine Forest Soils: What Are the Driving Factors?

(2016) José A. Siles et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Effects of Temperature and Moisture on Soil Organic Matter Decomposition Along Elevation Gradients on the Changbai Mountains, Northeast China

(2016) Dan WANG et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Enzyme properties down the soil profile - A matter of substrate quality in rhizosphere and detritusphere

(2016) Sebastian Loeppmann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

(2016) Jizhong Zhou et al.   Nature Communications

Temperature sensitivity and enzymatic mechanisms of soil organic matter decomposition along an altitudinal gradient on Mount Kilimanjaro

(2016) Еvgenia Blagodatskaya et al.   Scientific Reports

MEGAN Community Edition - Interactive Exploration and Analysis of Large-Scale Microbiome Sequencing Data

(2016) Daniel H. Huson et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Bacterial Community Responses to Soils along a Latitudinal and Vegetation Gradient on the Loess Plateau, China

(2016) Quanchao Zeng et al.   PLoS One

Differential Responses of Dinitrogen Fixation, Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria and Ammonia Oxidation Reveal a Potential Warming-Induced Imbalance of the N-Cycle in Biological Soil Crusts

(2016) Xiaobing Zhou et al.   PLoS One

MEGAHIT: an ultra-fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct de Bruijn graph

(2015) Dinghua Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Eco-meteorological characteristics of the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

(2015) Tim Appelhans et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Land Use and Precipitation Affect Organic and Microbial Carbon Stocks and the Specific Metabolic Quotient in Soils of Eleven Ecosystems of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

(2015) Holger Pabst et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Effects of elevation and land use on the biomass of trees, shrubs and herbs at Mount Kilimanjaro

(2015) Andreas Ensslin et al.   Ecosphere

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Contrasting elevational diversity patterns between eukaryotic soil microbes and plants

(2014) Congcong Shen et al.   ECOLOGY

Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

(2014) Benjamin Buchfink et al.   NATURE METHODS

Microbial interactions affect sources of priming induced by cellulose

(2014) Evgenia Blagodatskaya et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

(2013) Morgan G I Langille et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Do we need to understand microbial communities to predict ecosystem function? A comparison of statistical models of nitrogen cycling processes

(2013) Emily B. Graham et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Strong elevational trends in soil bacterial community composition on Mt. Halla, South Korea

(2013) Dharmesh Singh et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate

(2013) Serita D. Frey et al.   Nature Climate Change

dbCAN: a web resource for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation

(2012) Yanbin Yin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

FastUniq: A Fast De Novo Duplicates Removal Tool for Paired Short Reads

(2012) Haibin Xu et al.   PLoS One

Microbial biomass growth, following incorporation of biochars produced at 350 °C or 700 °C, in a silty-clay loam soil of high and low pH

(2012) Y. Luo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil pH drives the spatial distribution of bacterial communities along elevation on Changbai Mountain

(2012) Congcong Shen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Temperature sensitivity of soil enzyme kinetics under N-fertilization in two temperate forests

(2011) Madeleine M. Stone et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A Hump-Backed Trend in Bacterial Diversity with Elevation on Mount Fuji, Japan

(2011) Dharmesh Singh et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy

(2011) I. Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency

(2011) Paul Dijkstra et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification

(2010) Doug Hyatt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

(2010) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Johannes Rousk et al.   ISME Journal

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

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients

(2008) D. Nogués-Bravo et al.   NATURE

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

(2008) S. D. Allison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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(2008) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY