Resistance, Resilience, and Recovery of Dryland Soil Bacterial Communities Across Multiple Disturbances

Distinct assembly mechanisms underlie similar biogeographical patterns of rare and abundant bacteria in Tibetan Plateau grassland soils

(2020) Mukan Ji et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Dominant soil bacteria and their ecological attributes across the deserts in northern China

(2019) W. Feng et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Halophilic microbial community compositional shift after a rare rainfall in the Atacama Desert

(2019) Gherman Uritskiy et al.   ISME Journal

Microdiversity ensures the maintenance of functional microbial communities under changing environmental conditions

(2019) Natalia García-García et al.   ISME Journal

Using remote sensing products to predict recovery of vegetation across space and time following energy development

(2019) Adrian P. Monroe et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The lifestyle of lichens in soil crusts

(2018) T. G. Allan GREEN et al.   LICHENOLOGIST

Plant community changes after land abandonment control CO2 balance in a dry environment

(2018) Carme Estruch et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth

(2018) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant and microbial biomarkers suggest mechanisms of soil organic carbon accumulation in a Mojave Desert ecosystem under elevated CO 2

(2018) Akihiro Koyama et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The influence of climatic legacies on the distribution of dryland biocrust communities

(2018) David J. Eldridge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Linking bacterial community composition to soil salinity along environmental gradients

(2018) Kristin M. Rath et al.   ISME Journal

Chronic Physical Disturbance Substantially Alters the Response of Biological Soil Crusts to a Wetting Pulse, as Characterized by Metatranscriptomic Sequencing

(2018) Blaire Steven et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Habitat-specific patterns and drivers of bacterial β-diversity in China’s drylands

(2017) Xiao-Bo Wang et al.   ISME Journal

Assessing recovery of biological soil crusts across a latitudinal gradient in Western Europe

(2017) Laura Williams et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Significant Impacts of Increasing Aridity on the Arid Soil Microbiome

(2017) Julia W. Neilson et al.   mSystems

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Climate Change and Physical Disturbance Manipulations Result in Distinct Biological Soil Crust Communities

(2015) Blaire Steven et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The influence of surface soil physicochemistry on the edaphic bacterial communities in contrasting terrain types of the Central Namib Desert

(2015) S. Gombeer et al.   Geobiology

Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts

(2015) Scott Ferrenberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil bacterial and fungal community responses to nitrogen addition across soil depth and microhabitat in an arid shrubland

(2015) Rebecca C. Mueller et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

STAMP: statistical analysis of taxonomic and functional profiles

(2014) Donovan H. Parks et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Climate change alters ecological strategies of soil bacteria

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

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

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

ANOVA-Like Differential Expression (ALDEx) Analysis for Mixed Population RNA-Seq

(2013) Andrew D. Fernandes et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Common and distinguishing features of the bacterial and fungal communities in biological soil crusts and shrub root zone soils

(2013) Blaire Steven et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Precipitation-driven carbon balance controls survivorship of desert biocrust mosses

(2012) Kirsten K. Coe et al.   ECOLOGY

Resistance and resilience of microbial communities - temporal and spatial insurance against perturbations

(2012) Didier L. Baho et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Dryland biological soil crust cyanobacteria show unexpected decreases in abundance under long-term elevated CO2

(2012) Blaire Steven et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Targeted and shotgun metagenomic approaches provide different descriptions of dryland soil microbial communities in a manipulated field study

(2012) Blaire Steven et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Changes to dryland rainfall result in rapid moss mortality and altered soil fertility

(2012) Sasha C. Reed et al.   Nature Climate Change

Fundamentals of Microbial Community Resistance and Resilience

(2012) Ashley Shade et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

(2011) Cheryl R Kuske et al.   ISME Journal

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Morphological diversity and abundance of biological soil crusts differ in relation to landscape setting and vegetation type

(2008) A. Briggs et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

(2008) S. D. Allison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA