Rainforest Conversion to Rubber Plantation May Not Result in Lower Soil Diversity of Bacteria, Fungi, and Nematodes

The impact of tropical forest logging and oil palm agriculture on the soil microbiome

(2016) Binu M. Tripathi et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Impact of tropical lowland rainforest conversion into rubber and oil palm plantations on soil microbial communities

(2015) Valentyna Krashevska et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Soil-Borne Microbiome: Linking Diversity to Function

(2015) Lucas W. Mendes et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Soil Nitrogen-Cycling Responses to Conversion of Lowland Forests to Oil Palm and Rubber Plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia

(2015) Kara Allen et al.   PLoS One

Conversion of lowland tropical forests to tree cash crop plantations loses up to one-half of stored soil organic carbon

(2015) Oliver van Straaten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

(2015) Jonathan W. Leff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Increasing Demand for Natural Rubber Necessitates a Robust Sustainability Initiative to Mitigate Impacts on Tropical Biodiversity

(2015) Eleanor Warren-Thomas et al.   Conservation Letters

The Impact of Selective-Logging and Forest Clearance for Oil Palm on Fungal Communities in Borneo

(2014) Dorsaf Kerfahi et al.   PLoS One

Intensive rubber cultivation degrades soil nematode communities in Xishuangbanna, southwest China

(2014) Hai F. Xiao et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Does logging and forest conversion to oil palm agriculture alter functional diversity in a biodiversity hotspot?

(2013) F. A. Edwards et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Impact of Logging and Forest Conversion to Oil Palm Plantations on Soil Bacterial Communities in Borneo

(2013) Larisa Lee-Cruz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil Carbon Stocks Decrease following Conversion of Secondary Forests to Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) Plantations

(2013) Marleen de Blécourt et al.   PLoS One

PANDAseq: paired-end assembler for illumina sequences

(2012) Andre P Masella et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Soil Changes Induced by Rubber and Tea Plantation Establishment: Comparison with Tropical Rain Forest Soil in Xishuangbanna, SW China

(2012) Hongmei Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The impact of rubber plantations on the diversity and activity of understorey insectivorous bats in southern Thailand

(2011) Phansamai Phommexay et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The high costs of conserving Southeast Asia's lowland rainforests

(2011) Brendan Fisher et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Rubber plantations act as water pumps in tropical China

(2011) Zheng-Hong Tan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Impact of rubber plantation on carabid beetle communities and species distribution in a changing tropical landscape (southern Yunnan, China)

(2011) Ling-Zeng Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Integrating food web diversity, structure and stability

(2011) Neil Rooney et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

High Conservation Value or high confusion value? Sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation in the tropics

(2011) David P. Edwards et al.   Conservation Letters

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

(2010) Marti J. Anderson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

China drought highlights future climate threats

(2010) Jane Qiu   NATURE

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi - recent updates and future perspectives

(2010) Kessy Abarenkov et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Degraded lands worth protecting: the biological importance of Southeast Asia's repeatedly logged forests

(2010) D. P. Edwards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Wildlife-friendly oil palm plantations fail to protect biodiversity effectively

(2010) David P. Edwards et al.   Conservation Letters

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

Evaluating high-throughput sequencing as a method for metagenomic analysis of nematode diversity

(2009) DOROTA L. PORAZINSKA et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Ectomycorrhizal lifestyle in fungi: global diversity, distribution, and evolution of phylogenetic lineages

(2009) Leho Tedersoo et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Where the rubber meets the garden

(2009) Jane Qiu   NATURE

The Rubber Juggernaut

(2009) A. D. Ziegler et al.   SCIENCE

Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data

(2008) M. C. Hansen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities across land-use types

(2008) Christian L. Lauber et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY