Root control of fungal communities and soil carbon stocks in a temperate forest

Quantitative PCR provides a simple and accessible method for quantitative microbiota profiling

(2020) Ching Jian et al.   PLoS One

Fine roots and mycorrhizal fungi accelerate leaf litter decomposition in a northern hardwood forest regardless of dominant tree mycorrhizal associations

(2020) Ashley K. Lang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Exploring the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil carbon dynamics

(2019) Donald R. Zak et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Rapid Transfer of Plant Photosynthates to Soil Bacteria via Ectomycorrhizal Hyphae and Its Interaction With Nitrogen Availability

(2019) Stefan Gorka et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Resource‐ratio theory predicts mycorrhizal control of litter decomposition

(2019) Gabriel R. Smith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

(2019) Chao Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mycorrhizal Fungi as Mediators of Soil Organic Matter Dynamics

(2019) Serita D. Frey   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century

(2019) Jocelyn M. Lavallee et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Decelerated carbon cycling by ectomycorrhizal fungi is controlled by substrate quality and community composition

(2019) Christopher W. Fernandez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Multicellular behaviour enables cooperation in microbial cell aggregates

(2019) Ali Ebrahimi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Species associations overwhelm abiotic conditions to dictate the structure and function of wood-decay fungal communities

(2018) Daniel S. Maynard et al.   ECOLOGY

Contrasting effects of ectomycorrhizal fungi on early and late stage decomposition in a boreal forest

(2018) Erica Sterkenburg et al.   ISME Journal

Russulaceae: a new genomic dataset to study ecosystem function and evolutionary diversification of ectomycorrhizal fungi with their tree associates

(2018) Brian P. Looney et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The detrital input and removal treatment (DIRT) network: Insights into soil carbon stabilization

(2018) Kate Lajtha et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Network hubs in root-associated fungal metacommunities

(2018) Hirokazu Toju et al.   Microbiome

Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly

(2018) Kateryna Zhalnina et al.   Nature Microbiology

Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dispersal Modifies the Diversity and Composition of Active Bacterial Communities in Response to a Salinity Disturbance

(2018) Dandan Shen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Soil organic carbon storage as a key function of soils - A review of drivers and indicators at various scales

(2018) Martin Wiesmeier et al.   GEODERMA

Pathways of mineral‐associated soil organic matter formation: Integrating the role of plant carbon source, chemistry, and point of entry

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Genome-based estimates of fungal rDNA copy number variation across phylogenetic scales and ecological lifestyles

(2018) Lotus A. Lofgren et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Daylight exposure modulates bacterial communities associated with household dust

(2018) Ashkaan K. Fahimipour et al.   Microbiome

Cover crop root contributions to soil carbon in a no-till corn bioenergy cropping system

(2017) Emily E. Austin et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Shifts in rhizosphere fungal community during secondary succession following abandonment from agriculture

(2017) S Emilia Hannula et al.   ISME Journal

Quantitative microbiome profiling links gut community variation to microbial load

(2017) Doris Vandeputte et al.   NATURE

Habitat- and soil-related drivers of the root-associated fungal community of Quercus suber in the Northern Moroccan forest

(2017) Fatima Zahra Maghnia et al.   PLoS One

Long-term litter manipulation alters soil organic matter turnover in a temperate deciduous forest

(2017) Jun-Jian Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Dispersal-Based Microbial Community Assembly Decreases Biogeochemical Function

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Chronic nitrogen additions fundamentally restructure the soil fungal community in a temperate forest

(2016) Eric W. Morrison et al.   Fungal Ecology

FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

(2016) Nhu H. Nguyen et al.   Fungal Ecology

Effects of dispersal and selection on stochastic assembly in microbial communities

(2016) Sarah Evans et al.   ISME Journal

Unpredictable assembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

(2016) Jeff R. Powell et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Direct evidence for microbial-derived soil organic matter formation and its ecophysiological controls

(2016) Cynthia M. Kallenbach et al.   Nature Communications

Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratios Are Linked to Altered Carbon Cycling

(2016) Ashish A. Malik et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Contribution of roots and amendments to soil carbon accumulation within the soil profile in a long-term field experiment in Sweden

(2015) Lorenzo Menichetti et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Soil extracellular enzyme activities are sensitive indicators of detrital inputs and carbon availability

(2015) Zsuzsa Veres et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Changes in fungal communities along a boreal forest soil fertility gradient

(2015) Erica Sterkenburg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mycorrhizal type determines the magnitude and direction of root-induced changes in decomposition in a temperate forest

(2015) Edward R. Brzostek et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Revisiting the ‘Gadgil effect’: do interguild fungal interactions control carbon cycling in forest soils?

(2015) Christopher W. Fernandez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession

(2015) Francisco Dini-Andreote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Greater humification of belowground than aboveground biomass carbon into particulate soil organic matter in no-till corn and soybean crops

(2015) Sebastián R. Mazzilli et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The role of stochasticity differs in the assembly of soil- and root-associated fungal communities

(2015) Sarah Beck et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Changes in litter quality caused by simulated nitrogen deposition reinforce the N-induced suppression of litter decay

(2015) Linda T. A. van Diepen et al.   Ecosphere

Microbial lipid and amino sugar responses to long-term simulated global environmental changes in a California annual grassland

(2015) Chao Liang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Similar composition but differential stability of mineral retained organic matter across four classes of clay minerals

(2014) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An optimized HPLC method for soil fungal biomass determination and its application to a detritus manipulation study

(2014) Aron Beni et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Ectomycorrhizal fungi - potential organic matter decomposers, yet not saprotrophs

(2014) Björn D. Lindahl et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Litter and Root Manipulations Provide Insights into Soil Organic Matter Dynamics and Stability

(2014) Kate Lajtha et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Litter Input Controls on Soil Carbon in a Temperate Deciduous Forest

(2014) Richard D. Bowden et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Nitrogen Uptake by Trees and Mycorrhizal Fungi in a Successional Northern Temperate Forest: Insights from Multiple Isotopic Methods

(2013) Lucas E. Nave et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Community assembly processes shape an altitudinal gradient of forest biodiversity

(2013) Akira S Mori et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Application of Natural Blends of Phytochemicals Derived from the Root Exudates ofArabidopsisto the Soil Reveal That Phenolic-related Compounds Predominantly Modulate the Soil Microbiome

(2013) Dayakar V. Badri et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Going back to the roots: the microbial ecology of the rhizosphere

(2013) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Correction: Root Exudation of Phytochemicals in Arabidopsis Follows Specific Patterns That Are Developmentally Programmed and Correlate with Soil Microbial Functions

(2013) Jacqueline M. Chaparro et al.   PLoS One

Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest

(2013) K. E. Clemmensen et al.   SCIENCE

New primers to amplify the fungal ITS2 region - evaluation by 454-sequencing of artificial and natural communities

(2012) Katarina Ihrmark et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Long-term carbon storage through retention of dissolved aromatic acids by reactive particles in soil

(2012) Marc G. Kramer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

(2012) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fungal community on decomposing leaf litter undergoes rapid successional changes

(2012) Jana Voříšková et al.   ISME Journal

Ectomycorrhizal iconoclasts: the ITS rDNA diversity and nitrophilic tendencies of fetid Russula

(2012) P. G. Avis   MYCOLOGIA

Revealing structure and assembly cues for Arabidopsis root-inhabiting bacterial microbiota

(2012) Davide Bulgarelli et al.   NATURE

Cycling downwards – dissolved organic matter in soils

(2012) Klaus Kaiser et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Roots contribute more to refractory soil organic matter than above-ground crop residues, as revealed by a long-term field experiment

(2011) Thomas Kätterer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Conservation of ectomycorrhizal fungi: exploring the linkages between functional and taxonomic responses to anthropogenic N deposition

(2011) E.A. Lilleskov et al.   Fungal Ecology

Integrative analysis of environmental sequences using MEGAN4

(2011) D. H. Huson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

(2011) J. M. Chase et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Importance of Dispersal for Bacterial Community Composition and Functioning

(2011) Eva S. Lindström et al.   PLoS One

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Disruption of root carbon transport into forest humus stimulates fungal opportunists at the expense of mycorrhizal fungi

(2010) Björn D Lindahl et al.   ISME Journal

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Stochastic Community Assembly Causes Higher Biodiversity in More Productive Environments

(2010) J. M. Chase   SCIENCE

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(2010) Christiane Kramer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Using null model analysis of species co-occurrences to deconstruct biodiversity patterns and select indicator species

(2009) Ermias T. Azeria et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Termination of belowground C allocation by trees alters soil fungal and bacterial communities in a boreal forest

(2009) Stephanie A. Yarwood et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Sources of plant-derived carbon and stability of organic matter in soil: implications for global change

(2009) SUSAN E. CROW et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ectomycorrhizal fungi and their enzymes in soils: is there enough evidence for their role as facultative soil saprotrophs?

(2009) Petr Baldrian   OECOLOGIA

The rhizosphere zoo: An overview of plant-associated communities of microorganisms, including phages, bacteria, archaea, and fungi, and of some of their structuring factors

(2009) M. Buée et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The influence of time, storage temperature, and substrate age on potential soil enzyme activity in acidic forest soils using MUB-linked substrates and l-DOPA

(2009) Jared L. DeForest   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A comparative study of dissolved organic carbon transport and stabilization in California forest and grassland soils

(2008) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Selective progressive response of soil microbial community to wild oat roots

(2008) Kristen M DeAngelis et al.   ISME Journal

Molecular C dynamics downstream: The biochemical decomposition sequence and its impact on soil organic matter structure and function

(2008) A. Stuart Grandy et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Multi-year convergence of biometric and meteorological estimates of forest carbon storage

(2007) C.M. Gough et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY