The effects of mixed-species root zones on the resistance of soil bacteria and fungi to long-term experimental and natural reductions in soil moisture

Watershed‐scale liming reveals the short‐ and long‐term effects of pH on the forest soil microbiome and carbon cycling

(2022) Bhavya Sridhar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial community shifts correspond with suppression of decomposition 25 years after liming of acidic forest soils

(2022) Bhavya Sridhar et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Low forest productivity associated with increasing drought‐tolerant species is compensated by an increase in drought‐tolerance richness

(2021) Raúl García‐Valdés et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Kroof experiment: realization and efficacy of a recurrent drought experiment plus recovery in a beech/spruce forest

(2021) Thorsten E. E. Grams et al.   Ecosphere

High Fungal Diversity but Low Seasonal Dynamics and Ectomycorrhizal Abundance in a Mountain Beech Forest

(2021) Markus Gorfer et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Repetitive seasonal drought causes substantial species‐specific shifts in fine‐root longevity and spatio‐temporal production patterns in mature temperate forest trees

(2021) Marie J. Zwetsloot et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Response of soil microbial communities to mixed beech-conifer forests varies with site conditions

(2021) Jing-Zhong Lu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Tree species mixing affects soil microbial functioning indirectly via root and litter traits and soil parameters in European forests

(2021) Lauren M. Gillespie et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Rhizosphere effects of woody plants on soil biogeochemical processes: A meta-analysis

(2021) Dayong Gan et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

(2020) Bernhard Schuldt et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Growth and mortality of Norway spruce and European beech in monospecific and mixed-species stands under natural episodic and experimentally extended drought. Results of the KROOF throughfall exclusion experiment

(2020) H. Pretzsch et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Prevalent root-derived phenolics drive shifts in microbial community composition and prime decomposition in forest soil

(2020) Marie J. Zwetsloot et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Fine-Root Traits Reveal Contrasting Ecological Strategies in European Beech and Norway Spruce During Extreme Drought

(2020) Petia Simeonova Nikolova et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Low root functional dispersion enhances functionality of plant growth by influencing bacterial activities in European forest soils

(2020) Luis Daniel Prada‐Salcedo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Paraburkholderia solitsugae sp. nov. and Paraburkholderia elongata sp. nov., phenolic acid-degrading bacteria isolated from forest soil and emended description of Paraburkholderia madseniana

(2020) Roland C. Wilhelm et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Land Use and Seasonal Effects on the Soil Microbiome of a Brazilian Dry Forest

(2019) Gileno V. Lacerda-Júnior et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

(2019) Evan Bolyen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Bioactive phenolic compounds, metabolism and properties: a review on valuable chemical compounds in Scots pine and Norway spruce

(2019) Sari Metsämuuronen et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Can naturally-occurring endophytic nitrogen-fixing bacteria of hybrid white spruce sustain boreal forest tree growth on extremely nutrient-poor soils?

(2019) Akshit Puri et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Response of soil microbial communities to altered precipitation: A global synthesis

(2018) Zhenghu Zhou et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phenolic root exudate and tissue compounds vary widely among temperate forest tree species and have contrasting effects on soil microbial respiration

(2018) Marie J. Zwetsloot et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

(2018) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Assessing fungal contributions to cellulose degradation in soil by using high-throughput stable isotope probing

(2018) Chantal Koechli et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of past and current drought on the composition and diversity of soil microbial communities

(2018) Catherine Preece et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stem and root diameter growth of European beech and Norway spruce under extreme drought

(2017) T. Rötzer et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Quantitative losses vs. qualitative stability of ectomycorrhizal community responses to 3 years of experimental summer drought in a beech-spruce forest

(2017) Uwe T. Nickel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Differential sensitivity of total and active soil microbial communities to drought and forest management

(2017) Felipe Bastida et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A decade of irrigation transforms the soil microbiome of a semi-arid pine forest

(2017) Martin Hartmann et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Soil acidity and exchangeable base cation stocks under pure and mixed stands of European beech, Douglas fir and Norway spruce

(2017) Maike Cremer et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Size-dependence of tree growth response to drought for Norway spruce and European beech individuals in monospecific and mixed-species stands

(2017) H. Ding et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Drought Stress Reaction of Growth and Δ13C in Tree Rings of European Beech and Norway Spruce in Monospecific Versus Mixed Stands Along a Precipitation Gradient

(2017) Cynthia Schäfer et al.   Forests

Microbial communities with distinct denitrification potential in spruce and beech soils differing in nitrate leaching

(2017) Jiří Bárta et al.   Scientific Reports

Taxonomic and functional shifts in the beech rhizosphere microbiome across a natural soil toposequence

(2017) Y. Colin et al.   Scientific Reports

Inhibition of phytopathogens by fungal root endophytes of Norway spruce

(2016) Eeva Terhonen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

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

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

Occallatibacter riparius gen. nov., sp. nov. and Occallatibacter savannae sp. nov., acidobacteria isolated from Namibian soils, and emended description of the family Acidobacteriaceae

(2016) Bärbel U. Foesel et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Soil drying procedure affects the DNA quantification of Lactarius vinosus but does not change the fungal community composition

(2016) Carles Castaño et al.   MYCORRHIZA

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

(2016) Dylan Craven et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Soil type determines the distribution of nutrient mobilizing bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of beech trees

(2016) O. Nicolitch et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Fine Spatial Scale Variation of Soil Microbial Communities under European Beech and Norway Spruce

(2016) Heiko Nacke et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Ecology of Acidobacteria: Moving beyond Genes and Genomes

(2016) Anna M. Kielak et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Specific impacts of beech and Norway spruce on the structure and diversity of the rhizosphere and soil microbial communities

(2016) S. Uroz et al.   Scientific Reports

Microbial activity in forest soil reflects the changes in ecosystem properties between summer and winter

(2015) Lucia Žifčáková et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Specific amplification of bacterial DNA by optimized so-called universal bacterial primers in samples rich of plant DNA

(2015) Samart Dorn-In et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Shedding light on microbial dark matter: a TM6 bacterium as natural endosymbiont of a free-living amoeba

(2015) Vincent Delafont et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Feature Selection with theBorutaPackage

(2015) Miron B. Kursa et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Soil chemical properties affect the reaction of forest soil bacteria to drought and rewetting stress

(2014) Marcin Chodak et al.   ANNALS OF MICROBIOLOGY

Mixed Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica [L.]) stands under drought: from reaction pattern to mechanism

(2014) H. Pretzsch et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Potential response of soil processes to diterpenes, triterpenes and tannins: Nitrification, growth of microorganisms and precipitation of proteins

(2013) Sylwia Adamczyk et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Is bacterial moisture niche a good predictor of shifts in community composition under long-term drought?

(2013) Sarah E. Evans et al.   ECOLOGY

Independent variations of plant and soil mixtures reveal soil feedback effects on plant community overyielding

(2013) Marloes Hendriks et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Experimental drought reduces the transfer of recently fixed plant carbon to soil microbes and alters the bacterial community composition in a mountain meadow

(2013) Lucia Fuchslueger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temporal variation of competition and facilitation in mixed species forests in Central Europe

(2013) M. del Río et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

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

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

Roots from beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) differentially affect soil microorganisms and carbon dynamics

(2013) Simone Cesarz et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Strong functional stability of soil microbial communities under semiarid Mediterranean conditions and subjected to long-term shifts in baseline precipitation

(2013) J. Curiel Yuste et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Controls on soil microbial community stability under climate change

(2013) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Distinct Ectomycorrhizospheres Share Similar Bacterial Communities as Revealed by Pyrosequencing-Based Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes

(2012) S. Uroz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Correlation of the Abundance of Betaproteobacteria on Mineral Surfaces with Mineral Weathering in Forest Soils

(2012) C. Lepleux et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Root carbon inputs to the rhizosphere stimulate extracellular enzyme activity and increase nitrogen availability in temperate forest soils

(2012) Edward R. Brzostek et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Ectomycorrhiza affect architecture and nitrogen partitioning of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) seedlings under shade and drought

(2012) Rodica Pena et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Pre-exposure to drought increases the resistance of tropical forest soil bacterial communities to extended drought

(2012) Nicholas J Bouskill et al.   ISME Journal

Resistance of European tree species to drought stress in mixedversuspure forests: evidence of stress release by inter-specific facilitation

(2012) H. Pretzsch et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models

(2012) Aiguo Dai   Nature Climate Change

Resistance and survival strategies of Salmonella enterica to environmental stresses

(2011) Michael P. Spector et al.   FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL

Role of general stress-response alternative sigma factors σS (RpoS) and σB (SigB) in bacterial heat resistance as a function of treatment medium pH

(2011) A. Ait-Ouazzou et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Seasons differently impact the structure of mineral weathering bacterial communities in beech and spruce stands

(2011) C. Collignon et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Comparison between the productivity of pure and mixed stands of Norway spruce and European beech along an ecological gradient

(2010) Hans Pretzsch et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Investigation of anti-microbial activity of catechin on Escherichia coli growth by microcalorimetry

(2010) Dai Chunmei et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY

Effect of storage conditions on the assessment of bacterial community structure in soil and human-associated samples

(2010) Christian L. Lauber et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

(2009) Miquel De Cáceres et al.   ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic diversity of non-nodulating Rhizobium  associated with pine ectomycorrhizae

(2009) Megumi Tanaka et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Bryobacter aggregatus gen. nov., sp. nov., a peat-inhabiting, aerobic chemo-organotroph from subdivision 3 of the Acidobacteria

(2009) I. S. Kulichevskaya et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Drought effects on allocation of recent carbon: from beech leaves to soil CO2 efflux

(2009) Nadine K. Ruehr et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Molecular analysis of bacterial communities associated with the roots of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) colonized by different ectomycorrhizal fungi

(2008) David J. Burke et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Root inoculation with a forest soil streptomycete leads to locally and systemically increased resistance against phytopathogens in Norway spruce

(2008) Nina-Alexandra Lehr et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Comparison of the bacterial communities established on the mycorrhizae formed on Pinus thunbergii root tips by eight species of fungi

(2008) Ryota Kataoka et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Effect of soil sample preservation, compared to the effect of other environmental variables, on bacterial and eukaryotic diversity

(2008) Vesela A. Tzeneva et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Survival of bacterial DNA and culturable bacteria in archived soils from the Rothamsted Broadbalk experiment

(2008) Ian M. Clark et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY