Deciphering the associations between soil microbial diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality driven by long-term fertilization management

Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome

(2017) Noah Fierer   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Dryland forest management alters fungal community composition and decouples assembly of root- and soil-associated fungal communities

(2017) Yong Zheng et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Relative importance of soil properties and microbial community for soil functionality: insights from a microbial swap experiment

(2016) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Lack of functional redundancy in the relationship between microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning

(2016) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The active microbial diversity drives ecosystem multifunctionality and is physiologically related to carbon availability in Mediterranean semi-arid soils

(2016) Felipe Bastida et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

(2016) Santiago Soliveres et al.   NATURE

Substrate quality affects kinetics and catalytic efficiency of exo-enzymes in rhizosphere and detritusphere

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

An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Soil Ecological Engineering for Agricultural Sustainability

(2016) S. Franz Bender et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems

(2016) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   Nature Communications

iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity (Hill numbers)

(2016) T. C. Hsieh et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Relic DNA is abundant in soil and obscures estimates of soil microbial diversity

(2016) Paul Carini et al.   Nature Microbiology

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

(2015) Eric Allan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Low multifunctional redundancy of soil fungal diversity at multiple scales

(2015) Akira S. Mori et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Significant alteration of soil bacterial communities and organic carbon decomposition by different long-term fertilization management conditions of extremely low-productivity arable soil in South China

(2015) Weibing Xun et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Structure, variation, and assembly of the root-associated microbiomes of rice

(2015) Joseph Edwards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

(2015) Donald R. Ort et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

(2015) W. Steffen et al.   SCIENCE

Soil and human security in the 21st century

(2015) R. Amundson et al.   SCIENCE

Soil conditions and land use intensification effects on soil microbial communities across a range of European field sites

(2015) Bruce C. Thomson et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil bacterial phoD gene abundance and expression in response to applied phosphorus and long-term management

(2015) Tandra D. Fraser et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Shifts in microbial diversity through land use intensity as drivers of carbon mineralization in soil

(2015) Vincent Tardy et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Influence of 34-years of fertilization on bacterial communities in an intensively cultivated black soil in northeast China

(2015) Jing Zhou et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate

(2015) Xin Jing et al.   Nature Communications

Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing

(2015) Julien Tremblay et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

(2014) Patricia Balvanera et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Artificial soil studies reveal domain-specific preferences of microorganisms for the colonisation of different soil minerals and particle size fractions

(2014) Michael Hemkemeyer et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

(2014) Maria A. Tsiafouli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Distinct soil microbial diversity under long-term organic and conventional farming

(2014) Martin Hartmann et al.   ISME Journal

Soil pH Determines Microbial Diversity and Composition in the Park Grass Experiment

(2014) Kateryna Zhalnina et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Long-term balanced fertilization increases the soil microbial functional diversity in a phosphorus-limited paddy soil

(2014) Jian-Qiang Su et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   NATURE

Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality

(2014) C. Wagg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

(2014) Mark A. Bradford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

(2013) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Soil aggregate stratification of nematodes and ammonia oxidizers affects nitrification in an acid soil

(2013) Yuji Jiang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Response of microbial communities to long-term fertilization depends on their microhabitat

(2013) Dominik Neumann et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Land-use intensity and the effects of organic farming on biodiversity: a hierarchical meta-analysis

(2013) Sean L. Tuck et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality

(2013) J. R. Pasari et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States

(2013) N. Fierer et al.   SCIENCE

Coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size

(2012) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

(2012) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conversion of the Amazon rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities

(2012) J. L. M. Rodrigues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2011) T. Magoc et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

The under-recognized dominance of Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial communities

(2011) Gaddy T. Bergmann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

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

Consistent effects of nitrogen fertilization on soil bacterial communities in contrasting systems

(2010) Kelly S. Ramirez et al.   ECOLOGY

Determinants of the distribution of nitrogen-cycling microbial communities at the landscape scale

(2010) D Bru et al.   ISME Journal

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Considering fungal:bacterial dominance in soils – Methods, controls, and ecosystem implications

(2010) Michael S. Strickland et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research

(2009) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking soil bacterial diversity to ecosystem multifunctionality using backward-elimination boosted trees analysis

(2009) Ji-Zheng He et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

On the fate of anthropogenic nitrogen

(2009) W. H. Schlesinger   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The influence of time, storage temperature, and substrate age on potential soil enzyme activity in acidic forest soils using MUB-linked substrates and l-DOPA

(2009) Jared L. DeForest   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

(2008) Robert L. Sinsabaugh et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Litter quality is in the eye of the beholder: initial decomposition rates as a function of inoculum characteristics

(2008) Michael S. Strickland et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Microbial activity and soil respiration under nitrogen addition in Alaskan boreal forest

(2008) STEVEN D. ALLISON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Suitability of enzyme activities for the monitoring of soil quality improvement in organic agricultural systems

(2008) Roberto García-Ruiz et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The utility of crop genetic diversity in maintaining ecosystem services

(2007) Reem Hajjar et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT