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(2020) Ifigenia Urbina et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Above- and belowground linkages shape responses of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2019) Frank Hagedorn et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid bamboo invasion (expansion) and its effects on biodiversity and soil processes +

(2019) Qiu-Fang Xu et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Species migrations and range shifts: A synthesis of causes and consequences

(2018) Sara Tomiolo et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications

(2018) Rolf Henrik Nilsson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance

(2017) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Niche differentiation and expansion of plant species are associated with mycorrhizal symbiosis

(2017) Maret Gerz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome

(2017) Noah Fierer   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Plant litter diversity increases microbial abundance, fungal diversity, and carbon and nitrogen cycling in a Mediterranean shrubland

(2017) Mathieu Santonja et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Accurate Estimation of Fungal Diversity and Abundance through Improved Lineage-Specific Primers Optimized for Illumina Amplicon Sequencing

(2016) D. Lee Taylor et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mexican alpine plants in the face of global warming: potential extinction within a specialized assemblage of narrow endemics

(2016) Yocupitzia Ramírez-Amezcua et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Microbial control of soil organic matter mineralization responses to labile carbon in subarctic climate change treatments

(2016) Kathrin Rousk et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mycorrhizal associations of trees have different indirect effects on organic matter decomposition

(2016) Melanie K. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Direct and indirect effects of native range expansion on soil microbial community structure and function

(2016) Courtney G. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

Dominant mycorrhizal association of trees alters carbon and nutrient cycling by selecting for microbial groups with distinct enzyme function

(2016) Tanya E. Cheeke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dead fungal mycelium in forest soil represents a decomposition hotspot and a habitat for a specific microbial community

(2016) Vendula Brabcová et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Error filtering, pair assembly and error correction for next-generation sequencing reads

(2015) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial-plant interactions: What lies ahead?

(2015) Aimée T. Classen et al.   Ecosphere

Structures of Microbial Communities in Alpine Soils: Seasonal and Elevational Effects

(2015) Anna Lazzaro et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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(2015) Stef van Buuren et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Detection of Low-Level Mixed-Population Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Using High Fidelity Amplicon Sequencing

(2015) Rebecca E. Colman et al.   PLoS One

Shrub Expansion Over the Past 62 Years in Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra: Possible Causes and Consequences

(2014) Adam Formica et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Effects of arctic shrub expansion on biophysical vs. biogeochemical drivers of litter decomposition

(2014) Jennie DeMarco et al.   ECOLOGY

Influence of Shrub Encroachment on the Soil Microbial Community Composition of Remnant Hill Prairies

(2014) Anthony C. Yannarell et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

Specificity of plant-microbe interactions in the tree mycorrhizosphere biome and consequences for soil C cycling

(2014) Carolyn Churchland et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Soil-vegetation interaction on slopes with bush encroachment in the central Alps - adapting slope stability measurements to shifting process domains

(2013) C. Caviezel et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Shifts in plant species elevational range limits and abundances observed over nearly five decades in a western North America mountain range

(2013) Christopher W. Kopp et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Shrub canopies influence soil temperatures but not nutrient dynamics: An experimental test of tundra snow-shrub interactions

(2013) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Regime shift on the roof of the world: Alpine meadows converting to shrublands in the southern Himalayas

(2012) Jodi S. Brandt et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Intra-annual variability and environmental controls over transpiration in a 58-year-old even-aged stand of invasive woodyJuniperus virginianaL. in the Nebraska Sandhills, USA

(2012) Tala Awada et al.   Ecohydrology

Tree range expansion may be enhanced by escape from negative plant–soil feedbacks

(2012) Sarah McCarthy-Neumann et al.   ECOLOGY

Interactions among shrub cover and the soil microclimate may determine future Arctic carbon budgets

(2012) Sean M. P. Cahoon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Isotopes reveal contrasting water use strategies among coexisting plant species in a Mediterranean ecosystem

(2012) Cristina Moreno-Gutiérrez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Differential impact on soil microbes of allelopathic compounds released by the invasive Acacia dealbata Link

(2012) Paula Lorenzo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Using species combinations in indicator value analyses

(2012) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

(2012) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   Nature Climate Change

Evidence of a strong coupling between root exudation, C and N availability, and stimulated SOM decomposition caused by rhizosphere priming effects

(2012) Per Bengtson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Tree and Shrub Expansion Over the Past 34 Years at the Tree-Line Near Abisko, Sweden

(2011) Sara Rundqvist et al.   AMBIO

Influence of Topography on the Colonization of Subalpine Grasslands by the Thorny Cushion Dwarf Echinospartum horridum

(2011) Benjamin Komac et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Invasion of dwarf bamboo into alpine snow-meadows in northern Japan: pattern of expansion and impact on species diversity

(2011) Gaku Kudo et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Effect of invasive Acacia dealbata Link on soil microorganisms as determined by PCR-DGGE

(2010) Paula Lorenzo et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

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(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Soil ecosystem functioning under climate change: plant species and community effects

(2010) Paul Kardol et al.   ECOLOGY

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(2010) Johannes Rousk et al.   ISME Journal

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Establishing a missing link: warm summers and winter snow cover promote shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia

(2010) Martin Hallinger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Slowed decomposition is biotically mediated in an ectomycorrhizal, tropical rain forest

(2010) Krista L. McGuire et al.   OECOLOGIA

Dynamics of alpine plant litter decomposition in a changing climate

(2010) Konstantin S. Gavazov   PLANT AND SOIL

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural and functional diversity of soil bacterial and fungal communities following woody plant encroachment in the southern Great Plains

(2010) Emily B. Hollister et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

Lack of belowground mutualisms hinders Pinaceae invasions

(2009) Martin A. Nuñez et al.   ECOLOGY

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(2009) SCOTT D. WILSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microbial diversity in alpine tundra soils correlates with snow cover dynamics

(2009) Lucie Zinger et al.   ISME Journal

Biodiversity at the plant–soil interface: microbial abundance and community structure respond to litter mixing

(2009) Samantha K. Chapman et al.   OECOLOGIA

Links between plant community composition, soil organic matter quality and microbial communities in contrasting tundra habitats

(2009) Anu Eskelinen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Woody plant encroachment impacts on soil carbon and microbial processes: results from a hierarchical Bayesian analysis of soil incubation data

(2009) Jessica M. Cable et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change

(2008) PHILIP A. WOOKEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil microbial biomass response to woody plant invasion of grassland

(2008) J.D. Liao et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Temporal variation in soil microbial communities in Alpine tundra

(2007) Robert G. Björk et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY