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

Does host plant richness explain diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi? Re-evaluation of Gaoet al. (2013) data sets reveals sampling effects

(2014) Leho Tedersoo et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Species richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: associations with grassland plant richness and biomass

(2014) Inga Hiiesalu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Stoichiometric imbalances between terrestrial decomposer communities and their resources: mechanisms and implications of microbial adaptations to their resources

(2014) Maria Mooshammer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The importance of heterogeneity revisited from a multiscale and multitaxa approach

(2013) Martin M. Gossner et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Functionally and phylogenetically diverse plant communities key to soil biota

(2013) Alexandru Milcu et al.   ECOLOGY

Host plant genus-level diversity is the best predictor of ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity in a Chinese subtropical forest

(2013) Cheng Gao et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Digging the New York City Skyline: Soil Fungal Communities in Green Roofs and City Parks

(2013) Krista L. McGuire et al.   PLoS One

Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities

(2013) F. Garcia-Pichel et al.   SCIENCE

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

(2013) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Complexity and composition of pasture swards affect plant productivity and soil organisms

(2012) M. S. McElroy et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE

Linking symbiont community structures in a model arbuscular mycorrhizal system

(2012) James F. Meadow et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

(2012) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The bacterial biogeography of British soils

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

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

Plant Diversity Surpasses Plant Functional Groups and Plant Productivity as Driver of Soil Biota in the Long Term

(2011) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   PLoS One

Macroecology of unicellular organisms - patterns and processes

(2011) Janne Soininen   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis

(2010) N. Eisenhauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

(2010) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil

(2010) Johannes Rousk et al.   ISME Journal

Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil

(2010) Scott T Bates et al.   ISME Journal

Biodiversity is associated with indicators of soil ecosystem functions over a landscape gradient of agricultural intensification

(2010) Steven W. Culman et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Forces that structure plant communities: quantifying the importance of the mycorrhizal symbiosis

(2010) John Klironomos et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi - recent updates and future perspectives

(2010) Kessy Abarenkov et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Is vegetation composition or soil chemistry the best predictor of the soil microbial community?

(2010) Ruth J. Mitchell et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

How understanding aboveground–belowground linkages can assist restoration ecology

(2010) Paul Kardol et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Advancing the metabolic theory of biodiversity

(2009) James C. Stegen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ectomycorrhizal lifestyle in fungi: global diversity, distribution, and evolution of phylogenetic lineages

(2009) Leho Tedersoo et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Does grassland vegetation drive soil microbial diversity?

(2009) P. Millard et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

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