Life in leaf litter: novel insights into community dynamics of bacteria and fungi during litter decomposition

Soil bacterial communities are shaped by temporal and environmental filtering: evidence from a long-term chronosequence

(2015) Zachary Freedman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Linking molecular deadwood-inhabiting fungal diversity and community dynamics to ecosystem functions and processes in Central European forests

(2015) Björn Hoppe et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Plant-associated fungal communities in the light of meta’omics

(2015) Derek Peršoh   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Temporal variation overshadows the response of leaf litter microbial communities to simulated global change

(2015) Kristin L Matulich et al.   ISME Journal

Effects of Forest Management Practices in Temperate Beech Forests on Bacterial and Fungal Communities Involved in Leaf Litter Degradation

(2015) Witoon Purahong et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Initial colonization, community assembly and ecosystem function: fungal colonist traits and litter biochemistry mediate decay rate

(2015) Lauren C. Cline et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Composition of fungal and bacterial communities in forest litter and soil is largely determined by dominant trees

(2015) Michaela Urbanová et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Changes within a single land-use category alter microbial diversity and community structure: Molecular evidence from wood-inhabiting fungi in forest ecosystems

(2014) Witoon Purahong et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Effects of long-term differential fertilization on eukaryotic microbial communities in an arable soil: a multiple barcoding approach

(2014) Guillaume Lentendu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Network Analysis Reveals Ecological Links between N-Fixing Bacteria and Wood-Decaying Fungi

(2014) Björn Hoppe et al.   PLoS One

Widespread Occurrence of Expressed Fungal Secretory Peroxidases in Forest Soils

(2014) Harald Kellner et al.   PLoS One

Influence of Different Forest System Management Practices on Leaf Litter Decomposition Rates, Nutrient Dynamics and the Activity of Ligninolytic Enzymes: A Case Study from Central European Forests

(2014) Witoon Purahong et al.   PLoS One

Uncoupling of microbial community structure and function in decomposing litter across beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe

(2014) Witoon Purahong et al.   Scientific Reports

Structural and functional variation in soil fungal communities associated with litter bags containing maize leaf

(2013) Eiko E. Kuramae et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Aspects of nitrogen-fixingActinobacteria, in particular free-living and symbioticFrankia

(2013) Anita Sellstedt et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) co-occur in leaf litter but are rare on decaying wood of the same host

(2013) Martin Unterseher et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Nitrogen deposition alters plant-fungal relationships: linking belowground dynamics to aboveground vegetation change

(2013) Sarah L. Dean et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bacterial Communities Associated with the Leaves and the Roots of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2013) Natacha Bodenhausen et al.   PLoS One

Distribution of Extracellular Enzymes in Soils: Spatial Heterogeneity and Determining Factors at Various Scales

(2013) Petr Baldrian   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Buffet hypothesis for microbial nutrition at the rhizosphere

(2013) Martha G. López-Guerrero et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The Wood Rot Ascomycete Xylaria polymorpha Produces a Novel GH78 Glycoside Hydrolase That Exhibits α-l-Rhamnosidase and Feruloyl Esterase Activities and Releases Hydroxycinnamic Acids from Lignocelluloses

(2012) Do Huu Nghi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data

(2012) Limin Fu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Who is who in litter decomposition? Metaproteomics reveals major microbial players and their biogeochemical functions

(2012) Thomas Schneider et al.   ISME Journal

Fungal community on decomposing leaf litter undergoes rapid successional changes

(2012) Jana Voříšková et al.   ISME Journal

Differences in Soil Fungal Communities between European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Dominated Forests Are Related to Soil and Understory Vegetation

(2012) Tesfaye Wubet et al.   PLoS One

Soil bacterial and fungal communities along a soil chronosequence assessed by fatty acid profiling

(2012) Monika Welc et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Independent roles of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic communities in soil organic matter decomposition

(2012) Jennifer M. Talbot et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Extended local similarity analysis (eLSA) of microbial community and other time series data with replicates

(2011) Li C Xia et al.   BMC Systems Biology

Do assembly history effects attenuate from species to ecosystem properties? A field test with wood-inhabiting fungi

(2011) Ian A. Dickie et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Patterns of lignin degradation and oxidative enzyme secretion by different wood- and litter-colonizing basidiomycetes and ascomycetes grown on beech-wood

(2011) Christiane Liers et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Marine bacterial, archaeal and protistan association networks reveal ecological linkages

(2011) Joshua A Steele et al.   ISME Journal

Fungal Community Composition in Neotropical Rain Forests: the Influence of Tree Diversity and Precipitation

(2011) Krista L. McGuire et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Bacterial-Fungal Interactions: Hyphens between Agricultural, Clinical, Environmental, and Food Microbiologists

(2011) P. Frey-Klett et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Optimization of hydrolytic and oxidative enzyme methods for ecosystem studies

(2011) Donovan P. German et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Dishing the dirt on carbon cycling

(2011) Jennifer M. Talbot et al.   Nature Climate Change

Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

(2010) Markus Fischer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities

(2010) Tadashi Fukami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of fungal endophytes on grass and non-grass litter decomposition rates

(2010) Witoon Purahong et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Quantifying microbial communities with 454 pyrosequencing: does read abundance count?

(2010) ANTHONY S. AMEND et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases

(2010) Leho Tedersoo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Screening for ligninolytic enzymes from autochthonous fungi and applications for decolorization of Remazole Marine Blue

(2009) Emre Erden et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

(2009) Victor Kunin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

Out of the rivers: are some aquatic hyphomycetes plant endophytes?

(2008) Marc-André Selosse et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Global Stoichiometry of Litter Nitrogen Mineralization

(2008) S. Manzoni et al.   SCIENCE