Analyses of dryland biological soil crusts highlight lichens as an important regulator of microbial communities

Localization of bacteria in lichens from Alpine soil crusts by fluorescence in situ hybridization

(2013) Lucia Muggia et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

HPC-CLUST: distributed hierarchical clustering for large sets of nucleotide sequences

(2013) João F. Matias Rodrigues et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Dryland soil microbial communities display spatial biogeographic patterns associated with soil depth and soil parent material

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Bacterial diversity of bryophyte-dominant biological soil crusts and associated mites

(2012) S.A. Moquin et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Rapid succession of Biological Soil Crusts after experimental disturbance in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa

(2011) S. Dojani et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Distribution and Composition of Cyanobacteria and Microalgae Associated with Biological Soil Crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, China

(2011) Bingchang Zhang et al.   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Effect of Soil Texture on Richness and Diversity of Bacterial Communities

(2011) Jessica Furrer Chau et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS

The bacterial biogeography of British soils

(2011) Robert I. Griffiths et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Photoautotrophic symbiont and geography are major factors affecting highly structured and diverse bacterial communities in the lichen microbiome

(2011) Brendan P. Hodkinson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Frondihabitans cladoniiphilus sp. nov., an actinobacterium of the family Microbacteriaceae isolated from lichen, and emended description of the genus Frondihabitans

(2011) M. Cardinale et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Response and resilience of soil biocrust bacterial communities to chronic physical disturbance in arid shrublands

(2011) Cheryl R Kuske et al.   ISME Journal

Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain

(2011) F.T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Relationships between biological soil crusts, bacterial diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning: Insights from a semi-arid Mediterranean environment

(2011) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Desert Farming Benefits from Microbial Potential in Arid Soils and Promotes Diversity and Plant Health

(2011) Martina Köberl et al.   PLoS One

Structure and function of the symbiosis partners of the lung lichen (Lobaria pulmonaria L. Hoffm.) analyzed by metaproteomics

(2011) Thomas Schneider et al.   PROTEOMICS

Soil bacterial growth and nutrient limitation along a chronosequence from a glacier forefield

(2011) Hans Göransson et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Bacterial Communities Associated with the Lichen Symbiosis

(2010) Scott T. Bates et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Buried treasure: soil biodiversity and conservation

(2010) Sophie S. Parker   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

MLTreeMap - accurate Maximum Likelihood placement of environmental DNA sequences into taxonomic and functional reference phylogenies

(2010) Manuel Stark et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Bacterial diversity, pigments and nitrogen fixation of biological desert crusts from the Sultanate of Oman

(2010) Raeid M.M. Abed et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

UniFrac: an effective distance metric for microbial community comparison

(2010) Catherine Lozupone et al.   ISME Journal

Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil

(2010) Scott T Bates et al.   ISME Journal

Rapidly denoising pyrosequencing amplicon reads by exploiting rank-abundance distributions

(2010) Jens Reeder et al.   NATURE METHODS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

A microbiotic survey of lichen-associated bacteria reveals a new lineage from the Rhizobiales

(2010) Brendan P. Hodkinson et al.   SYMBIOSIS

A new environment for aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria: biological soil crusts

(2010) Julius T. Csotonyi et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Microbial metacommunities in the lichen-rock habitat

(2010) Torbjørg Bjelland et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

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

Infernal 1.0: inference of RNA alignments

(2009) E. P. Nawrocki et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

What information does the electrical conductivity of soil water extracts of 1 to 5 ratio (w/v) provide for soil salinity assessment of agricultural irrigated lands?

(2009) Fernando Visconti et al.   GEODERMA

Abundance, composition, diversity and novelty of soil Proteobacteria

(2009) Anne M Spain et al.   ISME Journal

Species-specific structural and functional diversity of bacterial communities in lichen symbioses

(2009) Martin Grube et al.   ISME Journal

Community Assembly of Biological Soil Crusts of Different Successional Stages in a Temperate Sand Ecosystem, as Assessed by Direct Determination and Enrichment Techniques

(2009) Tanja Margrit Langhans et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Archaeal populations in biological soil crusts from arid lands in North America

(2009) Tanya Soule et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Statistical Methods for Detecting Differentially Abundant Features in Clinical Metagenomic Samples

(2009) James Robert White et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Universal and species-specific bacterial ‘fungiphiles’ in the mycospheres of different basidiomycetous fungi

(2008) J. A. Warmink et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

In situ analysis of the bacterial community associated with the reindeer lichen Cladonia arbuscula reveals predominance of Alphaproteobacteria

(2008) Massimiliano Cardinale et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Single-cell identification in microbial communities by improved fluorescence in situ hybridization techniques

(2008) Rudolf Amann et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY