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Abiotic factors affect leaf litter mass loss more strongly than initial litter traits under sand burial conditions

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(2019) Xiaoan Zuo et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

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(2018) Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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(2018) Shaokun Wang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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(2018) Wentao Luo et al.   ECOLOGY

Grass-Shrub Competition in Arid Lands: An Overlooked Driver in Grassland–Shrubland State Transition?

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Bacterial and Fungal Community Structures in Loess Plateau Grasslands with Different Grazing Intensities

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The Role of Soil Microorganisms in Plant Mineral Nutrition—Current Knowledge and Future Directions

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Bacterial and fungal communities respond differently to varying tillage depth in agricultural soils

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Patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in Tibetan alpine and global terrestrial ecosystems

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Ecophysiological responses of native invasive woody Juniperus virginiana L. to resource availability and stand characteristics in the semiarid grasslands of the Nebraska Sandhills

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Agricultural matrix affects differently the alpha and beta structural and functional diversity of soil microbial communities in a fragmented Mediterranean holm oak forest

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(2016) Pradeep Pillai et al.   Theoretical Ecology

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Soil pH, total phosphorus, climate and distance are the major factors influencing microbial activity at a regional spatial scale

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Available nitrogen is the key factor influencing soil microbial functional gene diversity in tropical rainforest

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Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands

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Plant functional diversity enhances associations of soil fungal diversity with vegetation and soil in the restoration of semiarid sandy grassland

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Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

(2014) Suzanne M. Prober et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Fungal and Bacterial Community Succession Differs for Three Wood Types during Decay in a Forest Soil

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(2014) Chao Wang et al.   Nature Communications

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Vegetation Response in a Colorado Grassland-shrub Community to Extreme Drought: 1999–2010

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Influence of pretreated activated sludge for electricity generation in microbial fuel cell application

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Assessing conservation regionalization schemes: employing a beta diversity metric to test the environmental surrogacy approach

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(2013) Elsa E. Cleland et al.   ECOLOGY

The rising Great Plains fire campaign: citizens' response to woody plant encroachment

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Dispersal in microbes: fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances

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(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Evidence of Physiological Decoupling from Grassland Ecosystem Drivers by an Encroaching Woody Shrub

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(2012) Shinpei Yoshitake et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies

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Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

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Biomass, Litter, and Soil Respiration Along a Precipitation Gradient in Southern Great Plains, USA

(2009) Xuhui Zhou et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Plant species and soil type cooperatively shape the structure and function of microbial communities in the rhizosphere

(2009) Gabriele Berg et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Despite strong seasonal responses, soil microbial consortia are more resilient to long-term changes in rainfall than overlying grassland

(2009) Karelyn Cruz-Martínez et al.   ISME Journal

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