Natural restoration exhibits better soil bacterial network complexity and stability than artificial restoration on the Loess Plateau, China

Effects of vegetation restoration on soil properties and vegetation attributes in the arid and semi-arid regions of China

(2023) Wenxin Zhou et al.   Journal of Environmental Management

Rhizosphere bacteriome structure and functions

(2022) Ning Ling et al.   Nature Communications

Planted forests intensified soil microbial metabolic nitrogen and phosphorus limitation on the Loess Plateau, China

(2022) Benshuai Yan et al.   CATENA

Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta‐analysis

(2022) Joe Atkinson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

(2022) Fangyuan Hua et al.   SCIENCE

Soil microbiota as game-changers in restoration of degraded lands

(2022) Oksana Coban et al.   SCIENCE

Aridity decreases soil protistan network complexity and stability

(2022) Qing-Lin Chen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Afforestation can lower microbial diversity and functionality in deep soil layers in a semiarid region

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Ecological function-oriented vegetation protection and restoration strategies in China's Loess Plateau

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Environmental stress destabilizes microbial networks

(2021) Damian J. Hernandez et al.   ISME Journal

Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionality

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Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

(2021) Mengting Maggie Yuan et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effects of long-term afforestation and natural grassland recovery on soil properties and quality in Loess Plateau (China)

(2021) Jing Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

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Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes

(2020) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

PICRUSt2 for prediction of metagenome functions

(2020) Gavin M. Douglas et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Effects of Robinia pseudoacacia afforestation on aggregate size distribution and organic C dynamics in the central Loess Plateau of China: A chronosequence approach

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Soil microbial diversity and composition: Links to soil texture and associated properties

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Adaptive pathways of soil microorganisms to stoichiometric imbalances regulate microbial respiration following afforestation in the Loess Plateau, China

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Agricultural intensification reduces microbial network complexity and the abundance of keystone taxa in roots

(2019) Samiran Banerjee et al.   ISME Journal

Global Environmental Changes Impact Soil Hydraulic Functions through Biophysical Feedbacks

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Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

(2019) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Use and abuse of correlation analyses in microbial ecology

(2019) Alex Carr et al.   ISME Journal

Restoring forests as a means to many ends

(2019) Robin Chazdon et al.   SCIENCE

Establishing microbial composition measurement standards with reference frames

(2019) James T. Morton et al.   Nature Communications

Incorporating phylogenetic metrics to microbial co‐occurrence networks based on amplicon sequences to discern community assembly processes

(2019) Marta Goberna et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China

(2019) Shuo Jiao et al.   ISME Journal

Estimating the Increase in Regional Evaporative Water Consumption as a Result of Vegetation Restoration Over the Loess Plateau, China

(2019) Rui Shao et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Effects of different vegetation restoration measures on soil aggregate stability and erodibility on the Loess Plateau, China

(2019) Yanxing Dou et al.   CATENA

Keystone taxa predict compositional change in microbial communities

(2018) Cristina M. Herren et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Soil moisture decline following the plantation of Robinia pseudoacacia forests: Evidence from the Loess Plateau

(2018) Haibin Liang et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Trait-based patterns of microbial dynamics in dormancy potential and heterotrophic strategy: case studies of resource-based and post-press succession

(2018) Patrick J. Kearns et al.   ISME Journal

Keystone taxa as drivers of microbiome structure and functioning

(2018) Samiran Banerjee et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Afforestation neutralizes soil pH

(2018) Songbai Hong et al.   Nature Communications

Network Analyses Can Advance Above-Belowground Ecology

(2018) Kelly S. Ramirez et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

(2018) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   Nature Communications

Can we predict keystones?

(2018) Lisa Röttjers et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Natural grassland as the optimal pattern of vegetation restoration in arid and semi-arid regions: Evidence from nutrient limitation of soil microbes

(2018) Yongxing Cui et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Cohesion: a method for quantifying the connectivity of microbial communities

(2017) Cristina M Herren et al.   ISME Journal

Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome

(2017) Noah Fierer   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Inclusion of Biodiversity in Habitat Restoration Policy to Facilitate Ecosystem Recovery

(2017) A. Randall Hughes et al.   Conservation Letters

Soil networks become more connected and take up more carbon as nature restoration progresses

(2017) Elly Morriën et al.   Nature Communications

Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

(2016) Lionel Guidi et al.   NATURE

Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale

(2016) E. W. Slessarev et al.   NATURE

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

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Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome

(2016) S. Louca et al.   SCIENCE

Soil bacterial community dynamics reflect changes in plant community and soil properties during the secondary succession of abandoned farmland in the Loess Plateau

(2016) Chao Zhang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Opportunities for biodiversity gains under the world’s largest reforestation programme

(2016) Fangyuan Hua et al.   Nature Communications

Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

(2016) Xiaoming Feng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

(2015) Diana R Nemergut et al.   ISME Journal

Balancing green and grain trade

(2015) Yiping Chen et al.   Nature Geoscience

The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

(2015) K. Z. Coyte et al.   SCIENCE

Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   NATURE

Plant-soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

(2013) Wim H. van der Putten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Hurdles and Opportunities for Landscape-Scale Restoration

(2013) M. H. M. Menz et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular ecological network analyses

(2012) Ye Deng et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary ecology of plant-microbe interactions: soil microbial structure alters selection on plant traits

(2011) Jennifer A. Lau et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phylogenetic Molecular Ecological Network of Soil Microbial Communities in Response to Elevated CO2

(2011) J. Zhou et al.   mBio

Global patterns in belowground communities

(2009) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Carbon accumulation in agricultural soils after afforestation: a meta-analysis

(2009) JÉRÔME LAGANIÈRE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Bacterial competition: surviving and thriving in the microbial jungle

(2009) Michael E. Hibbing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Soil Microbial Communities and Restoration Ecology: Facilitators or Followers?

(2009) J. Harris   SCIENCE

Soil quality degradation processes along a deforestation chronosequence in the Ziwuling area, China

(2008) Shaoshan An et al.   CATENA

Ecological and socioeconomic effects of China's policies for ecosystem services

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