Long-term use of cover crops and no-till shift soil microbial community life strategies in agricultural soil

Cover cropping and no-tillage improve soil health in an arid irrigated cropping system in California’s San Joaquin Valley, USA

(2017) Jeffrey P. Mitchell et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Nutrient and Rainfall Additions Shift Phylogenetically Estimated Traits of Soil Microbial Communities

(2017) Kelly Gravuer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

No favorable effect of reduced tillage on microbial community diversity in a silty loam soil (Belgium)

(2016) Florine Degrune et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Conservation tillage increases soil bacterial diversity in the dryland of northern China

(2016) Ziting Wang et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Carbon amendment and soil depth affect the distribution and abundance of denitrifiers in agricultural soils

(2016) M. Barrett et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Cover crops prevent the deleterious effect of nitrogen fertilisation on bacterial diversity by maintaining the carbon content of ploughed soil

(2016) Julien Verzeaux et al.   GEODERMA

16S metagenomics reveals changes in the soil bacterial community driven by soil organic C, N-fertilizer and tillage-crop residue management

(2016) Yosef Chávez-Romero et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

One-time strategic tillage does not cause major impacts on soil microbial properties in a no-till Calcisol

(2016) Hongwei Liu et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

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

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

Soil Functional Zone Management: A Vehicle for Enhancing Production and Soil Ecosystem Services in Row-Crop Agroecosystems

(2016) Alwyn Williams et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Soil Water Holding Capacity Mitigates Downside Risk and Volatility in US Rainfed Maize: Time to Invest in Soil Organic Matter?

(2016) Alwyn Williams et al.   PLoS One

Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils via cultivation of cover crops – A meta-analysis

(2015) Christopher Poeplau et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Tillage and Cover Cropping Affect Crop Yields and Soil Carbon in the San Joaquin Valley, California

(2015) Jeffrey P. Mitchell et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Bacterial community structure in maize residue amended soil with contrasting management practices

(2015) Daniel A. Ramirez-Villanueva et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Metagenomic analysis reveals microbial functional redundancies and specificities in a soil under different tillage and crop-management regimes

(2015) Renata Carolini Souza et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Consequences of minimum soil tillage on abiotic soil properties and composition of microbial communities in a shallow Cambisol originated from fluvioglacial deposits

(2015) Anela Kaurin et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

(2015) Diana R Nemergut et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial Community Diversity in Soil Under two Tillage Practices as Determined by Pyrosequencing

(2015) Aditi Sengupta et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective

(2015) J. B. H. Martiny et al.   SCIENCE

Beyond conservation agriculture

(2015) Ken E. Giller et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Microbial community structure and abundance in the rhizosphere and bulk soil of a tomato cropping system that includes cover crops

(2014) Jude E. Maul et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Why are some microbes more ubiquitous than others? Predicting the habitat breadth of soil bacteria

(2014) Albert Barberán et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Productivity limits and potentials of the principles of conservation agriculture

(2014) Cameron M. Pittelkow et al.   NATURE

Structure, Composition and Metagenomic Profile of Soil Microbiomes Associated to Agricultural Land Use and Tillage Systems in Argentine Pampas

(2014) Belén Carbonetto et al.   PLoS One

Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Sascha Krause et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Soil metagenomics reveals differences under conventional and no-tillage with crop rotation or succession

(2013) Renata Carolini Souza et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies

(2013) T. Garnett et al.   SCIENCE

Relative impacts of tillage, residue management and crop-rotation on soil bacterial communities in a semi-arid agroecosystem

(2013) Yendi E. Navarro-Noya et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Aggregate-associated soil organic matter as an ecosystem property and a measurement tool

(2013) Johan Six et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nutrient availability limits carbon sequestration in arable soils

(2013) Clive A. Kirkby et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Metabolically versatile large-genome prokaryotes

(2012) Benoit Guieysse et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Ecosystem processes and interactions in a morass of diversity

(2012) James I. Prosser   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Conceptualizing functional traits and ecological characteristics of methane-oxidizing bacteria as life strategies

(2012) Adrian Ho et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Incorporating 16S Gene Copy Number Information Improves Estimates of Microbial Diversity and Abundance

(2012) Steven W. Kembel et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil

(2012) Joshua P. Schimel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

(2011) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low Pore Connectivity Increases Bacterial Diversity in Soil

(2010) J. K. Carson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

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

pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree

(2010) Frederick A Matsen et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Labile soil carbon inputs mediate the soil microbial community composition and plant residue decomposition rates

(2010) Marie-Anne de Graaff et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Differential responses of bacterial and archaeal groups at high taxonomical ranks to soil management

(2010) Ella Wessén et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial community composition and carbon cycling within soil microenvironments of conventional, low-input, and organic cropping systems

(2010) Angela Y.Y. Kong et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Will we allow soil carbon to feed our needs?

(2010) Alan J Franzluebbers   Carbon Management

Effect of long-term conservation tillage on soil biochemical properties in Mediterranean Spanish areas

(2009) E. Madejón et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Microbial Biogeography: From Taxonomy to Traits

(2008) J. L. Green et al.   SCIENCE