Responses of Soil Bacterial Communities to Nitrogen Deposition and Precipitation Increment Are Closely Linked with Aboveground Community Variation

Environmental changes drive the temporal stability of semi-arid natural grasslands through altering species asynchrony

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Mechanisms of soil acidification reducing bacterial diversity

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Aboveground-belowground biodiversity linkages differ in early and late successional temperate forests

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Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

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Effects of experimentally-enhanced precipitation and nitrogen on resistance, recovery and resilience of a semi-arid grassland after drought

(2014) Zhuwen Xu et al.   OECOLOGIA

Soil bacterial communities of different natural forest types in Northeast China

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Coupled response of soil carbon and nitrogen pools and enzyme activities to nitrogen and water addition in a semi-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia

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The counteractive effects of nitrogen addition and watering on soil bacterial communities in a steppe ecosystem

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Climate change alters ecological strategies of soil bacteria

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

Nitrogen deposition weakens plant-microbe interactions in grassland ecosystems

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UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Microbial abundance and composition influence litter decomposition response to environmental change

(2012) Steven D. Allison et al.   ECOLOGY

Positive climate feedbacks of soil microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland

(2012) Ming Nie et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Consistent effects of nitrogen amendments on soil microbial communities and processes across biomes

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Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

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Influences of land use history and short-term nitrogen addition on community structure in temperate grasslands

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Nitrogen deposition alters soil chemical properties and bacterial communities in the Inner Mongolia grassland

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Nitrogen cycling and water pulses in semiarid grasslands: are microbial and plant processes temporally asynchronous?

(2012) Feike A. Dijkstra et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of Water and Nitrogen Addition on Species Turnover in Temperate Grasslands in Northern China

(2012) Zhuwen Xu et al.   PLoS One

Tracking C and N flows through microbial biomass with increased soil moisture variability

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FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies

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Plant community responses to nitrogen addition and increased precipitation: the importance of water availability and species traits

(2011) HAIJUN YANG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition: responses of multiple plant and soil parameters across contrasting ecosystems in long-term field experiments

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

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

Interactive effects of water and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities in a semiarid steppe

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Changes in variability of soil moisture alter microbial community C and N resource use

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Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis

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Consistent effects of nitrogen fertilization on soil bacterial communities in contrasting systems

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Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic is not fundamentally different from that found in other biomes

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The effect of nutrient deposition on bacterial communities in Arctic tundra soil

(2010) Barbara J. Campbell et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on species composition change in calcareous grasslands

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QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle

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Significant Acidification in Major Chinese Croplands

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Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale

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PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

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Non-Additive Effects of Water and Nitrogen Addition on Ecosystem Carbon Exchange in a Temperate Steppe

(2009) Shuli Niu et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Dependence of carbon sequestration on the differential responses of ecosystem photosynthesis and respiration to rain pulses in a semiarid steppe

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Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands

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Fast UniFrac: facilitating high-throughput phylogenetic analyses of microbial communities including analysis of pyrosequencing and PhyloChip data

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On the fate of anthropogenic nitrogen

(2009) W. H. Schlesinger   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Influence of Historical Land Use and Water Availability on Grassland Restoration

(2009) Zhuwen Xu et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

A projection of future changes in summer precipitation and monsoon in East Asia

(2009) Ying Sun et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Carbon pulses but not phosphorus pulses are related to decreases in microbial biomass during repeated drying and rewetting of soils

(2009) C.R. Butterly et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Evidence for organic N deposition and its anthropogenic sources in China

(2008) Ying Zhang et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED

(2008) David S. LeBauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Nitrogen additions and microbial biomass: a meta-analysis of ecosystem studies

(2008) Kathleen K. Treseder   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Reappraisal of drying and wetting effects on C and N mineralization and fluxes in soils

(2008) WERNER BORKEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of substrate availability on the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition

(2008) ALEXANDER GERSHENSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil Microbial Community Response to Drought and Precipitation Variability in the Chihuahuan Desert

(2008) Jeb S. Clark et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands

(2008) Christopher M. Clark et al.   NATURE

Conservation of nitrogen increases with precipitation across a major grassland gradient in the Central Great Plains of North America

(2008) Rebecca L. McCulley et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Links between plant litter chemistry, species diversity, and below-ground ecosystem function

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Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

(2008) J. N. Galloway et al.   SCIENCE