Seeing the forest for the genes: using metagenomics to infer the aggregated traits of microbial communities

Bacterial phylogeny structures soil resistomes across habitats

(2014) Kevin J. Forsberg et al.   NATURE

Review of optical-based remote sensing for plant trait mapping

(2013) Lucie Homolová et al.   Ecological Complexity

Functional traits explain phytoplankton responses to environmental gradients across lakes of the United States

(2013) Kyle F. Edwards et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate change alters ecological strategies of soil bacteria

(2013) Sarah E. Evans et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Metagenomic analysis of size-fractionated picoplankton in a marine oxygen minimum zone

(2013) Sangita Ganesh et al.   ISME Journal

The intrinsic dimensionality of plant traits and its relevance to community assembly

(2013) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Metagenomic insights into microbial metabolism affecting arsenic dispersion in Mediterranean marine sediments

(2013) Frédéric Plewniak et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

(2013) Morgan G I Langille et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Environmental shaping of codon usage and functional adaptation across microbial communities

(2013) Maša Roller et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Metagenome-wide analysis of antibiotic resistance genes in a large cohort of human gut microbiota

(2013) Yongfei Hu et al.   Nature Communications

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

(2013) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Climate Change

Adaptation of intertidal biofilm communities is driven by metal ion and oxidative stresses

(2013) Weipeng Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Community genomic analyses constrain the distribution of metabolic traits across the Chloroflexi phylum and indicate roles in sediment carbon cycling

(2013) Laura A Hug et al.   Microbiome

Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Mapping the niche space of soil microorganisms using taxonomy and traits

(2012) Jay T. Lennon et al.   ECOLOGY

A trait-based approach for modelling microbial litter decomposition

(2012) S. D. Allison   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional metagenomics reveals novel salt tolerance loci from the human gut microbiome

(2012) Eamonn P Culligan et al.   ISME Journal

A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes

(2012) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

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 Shared Antibiotic Resistome of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens

(2012) K. J. Forsberg et al.   SCIENCE

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2012) Adrian Ho et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Variable Stoichiometry and Homeostatic Regulation of Bacterial Biomass Elemental Composition

(2012) J. Thad Scott et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The generation and maintenance of diversity in microbial communities

(2011) Noah Fierer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Nitrification is linked to dominant leaf traits rather than functional diversity

(2011) Daniel C. Laughlin   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale-up to trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services

(2011) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Metagenomic potential of microbial assemblages in the surface waters of the central Pacific Ocean tracks variability in oceanic habitat

(2011) Ian Hewson et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Exploration of community traits as ecological markers in microbial metagenomes

(2011) ALBERT BARBERÁN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Metagenomic analysis of a permafrost microbial community reveals a rapid response to thaw

(2011) Rachel Mackelprang et al.   NATURE

Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy

(2011) Jay T. Lennon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Going Deeper: Metagenome of a Hadopelagic Microbial Community

(2011) Emiley A. Eloe et al.   PLoS One

Metagenomic systems biology of the human gut microbiome reveals topological shifts associated with obesity and inflammatory bowel disease

(2011) S. Greenblum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mixed-Culture Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Molecular Basis of Mixed-Culture Growth in Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus

(2010) S. Sieuwerts et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An integrative approach to understanding microbial diversity: from intracellular mechanisms to community structure

(2010) Ivana Gudelj et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Metagenomic insights into evolution of a heavy metal-contaminated groundwater microbial community

(2010) Christopher L Hemme et al.   ISME Journal

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Stoichiometric control of organic carbon–nitrate relationships from soils to the sea

(2010) Philip G. Taylor et al.   NATURE

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

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

Expansion of the Protein Repertoire in Newly Explored Environments: Human Gut Microbiome Specific Protein Families

(2010) Kyle Ellrott et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The Systemic Imprint of Growth and Its Uses in Ecological (Meta)Genomics

(2010) Sara Vieira-Silva et al.   PLoS Genetics

A multi-trait test of the leaf-height-seed plant strategy scheme with 133 species from a pine forest flora

(2009) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Modeling the coupling of ocean ecology and biogeochemistry

(2009) S. Dutkiewicz et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Phytoplankton in a changing world: cell size and elemental stoichiometry

(2009) Z. V. Finkel et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

The genomic basis of trophic strategy in marine bacteria

(2009) F. M. Lauro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metagenome of a Versatile Chemolithoautotroph from Expanding Oceanic Dead Zones

(2009) D. A. Walsh et al.   SCIENCE

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea involved in nitrogen removal

(2009) Jia You et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Annotation Error in Public Databases: Misannotation of Molecular Function in Enzyme Superfamilies

(2009) Alexandra M. Schnoes et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Abundant and diverse bacteria involved in DMSP degradation in marine surface waters

(2008) Erinn C. Howard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY