Community Composition and Abundance of Bacterial, Archaeal and Nitrifying Populations in Savanna Soils on Contrasting Bedrock Material in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Coal mining practices reduce the microbial biomass, richness and diversity of soil

(2016) Patricia Dorr de Quadros et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

16S metagenomics reveals changes in the soil bacterial community driven by soil organic C, N-fertilizer and tillage-crop residue management

(2016) Yosef Chávez-Romero et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Microbial Diversity in Cerrado Biome (Neotropical Savanna) Soils

(2016) Alinne Pereira de Castro et al.   PLoS One

An in-depth analysis of actinobacterial communities shows their high diversity in grassland soils along a gradient of mixed heavy metal contamination

(2015) Tomáš Větrovský et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Plant diversity effects on soil microbial functions and enzymes are stronger than warming in a grassland experiment

(2015) Katja Steinauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Large differences in estimates of soil organic carbon turnover in density fractions by using single and repeated radiocarbon inventories

(2015) Marion Schrumpf et al.   GEODERMA

Differential responses of soil bacterial taxa to long-term P, N, and organic manure application

(2015) Ying Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Effects of nitrogen deposition rates and frequencies on the abundance of soil nitrogen-related functional genes in temperate grassland of northern China

(2015) Qiushi Ning et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Impact of Land Use Management and Soil Properties on Denitrifier Communities of Namibian Savannas

(2015) Gesche Braker et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Complete nitrification by a single microorganism

(2015) Maartje A. H. J. van Kessel et al.   NATURE

Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria

(2015) Holger Daims et al.   NATURE

Microbial diversity at Mitchell Peninsula, Eastern Antarctica: a potential biodiversity “hotspot”

(2015) Mukan Ji et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

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

Soil bacterial and fungal community responses to nitrogen addition across soil depth and microhabitat in an arid shrubland

(2015) Rebecca C. Mueller et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Namib Desert dune/interdune transects exhibit habitat-specific edaphic bacterial communities

(2015) Sandra Ronca et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Snapshot of methanogen sensitivity to temperature in Zoige wetland from Tibetan plateau

(2015) Li Fu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

(2014) N. Legay et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

(2014) Suzanne M. Prober et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Bacterial community structure and soil properties of a subarctic tundra soil in Council, Alaska

(2014) Hye Min Kim et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Prescribed fire, soil inorganic nitrogen dynamics, and plant responses in a semiarid grassland

(2014) David J. Augustine et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Effect of grazing on the abundance of functional genes associated with N cycling in three types of grassland in Inner Mongolia

(2014) K. Ding et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

rrnDB: improved tools for interpreting rRNA gene abundance in bacteria and archaea and a new foundation for future development

(2014) Steven F. Stoddard et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

Diversity of Archaea in Brazilian savanna soils

(2013) E. Catão et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Structure and function of the methanogenic microbial communities in Uruguayan soils shifted between pasture and irrigated rice fields

(2013) Ana Fernandez Scavino et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

NxrBencoding the beta subunit of nitrite oxidoreductase as functional and phylogenetic marker for nitrite-oxidizingNitrospira

(2013) Michael Pester et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Shaping post-orogenic landscapes by climate and chemical weathering

(2013) Oliver A. Chadwick et al.   GEOLOGY

Effect of agricultural land use change on community composition of bacteria and ammonia oxidizers

(2013) Rong Sheng et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Changes in Diversity, Abundance, and Structure of Soil Bacterial Communities in Brazilian Savanna Under Different Land Use Systems

(2013) Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Effects of drought and N-fertilization on N cycling in two grassland soils

(2013) Adrian A. Hartmann et al.   OECOLOGIA

Changes of Soil Bacterial Diversity as a Consequence of Agricultural Land Use in a Semi-Arid Ecosystem

(2013) Guo-Chun Ding et al.   PLoS One

Different Land Use Intensities in Grassland Ecosystems Drive Ecology of Microbial Communities Involved in Nitrogen Turnover in Soil

(2013) Annabel Meyer et al.   PLoS One

Organic vs. Conventional Grassland Management: Do 15N and 13C Isotopic Signatures of Hay and Soil Samples Differ?

(2013) Valentin H. Klaus et al.   PLoS One

Plant diversity effects on soil food webs are stronger than those of elevated CO2 and N deposition in a long-term grassland experiment

(2013) N. Eisenhauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Selective transport of plant root-associated bacterial populations in agricultural soils upon snowmelt

(2013) Dörte Dibbern et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Kruger National Park research supersites: Establishing long-term research sites for cross-disciplinary, multiscaled learning

(2013) Izak P.J. Smit et al.   KOEDOE

Physiology and Diversity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea

(2012) David A. Stahl et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Diversity, Physiology, and Niche Differentiation of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea

(2012) Roland Hatzenpichler   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Physical-chemical and microbiological changes in Cerrado Soil under differing sugarcane harvest management systems

(2012) Caio TCC Rachid et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Predominance of thaumarchaeal ammonia oxidizer abundance and transcriptional activity in an acidic fen

(2012) Martina Herrmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Life at the hyperarid margin: novel bacterial diversity in arid soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2012) Julia W. Neilson et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Characterization of Soil Bacterial Assemblies in Brazilian Savanna-Like Vegetation Reveals Acidobacteria Dominance

(2012) Janaina F. Araujo et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Temporal and spatial distributions of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria and their ratio as an indicator of oligotrophic conditions in natural wetlands

(2012) Atreyee Sims et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Fluctuations in ammonia oxidizing communities across agricultural soils are driven by soil structure and pH

(2012) Michele C. Pereira e Silva   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil

(2012) Joshua P. Schimel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Links between Ammonia Oxidizer Community Structure, Abundance, and Nitrification Potential in Acidic Soils

(2011) Huaiying Yao et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Effects of Slope Position on Soil Biological Properties in an Eroded Toposequence

(2011) Maryam Khalili-Rad et al.   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

Impact of rainfall and topography on the distribution of clays and major cations in granitic catenas of southern Africa

(2011) Lesego Khomo et al.   CATENA

The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology

(2011) Michael Pester et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

An Overview of Nitrogen Cycling in a Semiarid Savanna: Some Implications for Management and Conservation in a Large African Park

(2011) Corli Coetsee et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

amoA-based consensus phylogeny of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and deep sequencing of amoA genes from soils of four different geographic regions

(2011) Michael Pester et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effects of long-term fertilization of forest soils on potential nitrification and on the abundance and community structure of ammonia oxidizers and nitrite oxidizers

(2011) Sophie Wertz et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Nitrogen turnover in soil and global change

(2011) Julien Ollivier et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Transitions in bacterial communities along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea

(2011) Daniel PR Herlemann et al.   ISME Journal

Methanogenic archaea are globally ubiquitous in aerated soils and become active under wet anoxic conditions

(2011) Roey Angel et al.   ISME Journal

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea have more important role than ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in ammonia oxidation of strongly acidic soils

(2011) Li-Mei Zhang et al.   ISME Journal

Autotrophic growth of nitrifying community in an agricultural soil

(2011) Weiwei Xia et al.   ISME Journal

Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Bacterial Community Structure Along Different Management Types in German Forest and Grassland Soils

(2011) Heiko Nacke et al.   PLoS One

Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   PLoS One

Horizon-Specific Bacterial Community Composition of German Grassland Soils, as Revealed by Pyrosequencing-Based Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes

(2010) C. Will et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Distribution and diversity of carbon monoxide-oxidizing bacteria and bulk bacterial communities across a succession gradient on a Hawaiian volcanic deposit

(2010) C. F. Weber et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil

(2010) Scott T Bates et al.   ISME Journal

Regional insight into savanna hydrogeomorphology from termite mounds

(2010) Shaun R. Levick et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

(2009) C. L. Lauber et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Soil CO2flux and photoautotrophic community composition in high-elevation, ‘barren’ soil

(2009) Kristen R. Freeman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Shifts betweenNitrospira- andNitrobacter-like nitrite oxidizers underlie the response of soil potential nitrite oxidation to changes in tillage practices

(2009) E. Attard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Soil pH regulates the abundance and diversity of Group 1.1c Crenarchaeota

(2009) Laura E. Lehtovirta et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Ammonia oxidation kinetics determine niche separation of nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria

(2009) Willm Martens-Habbena et al.   NATURE

Archaea in dry soil environments

(2009) Sari Timonen et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Archaea Dominate the Ammonia-Oxidizing Community in the Rhizosphere of the Freshwater Macrophyte Littorella uniflora

(2008) M. Herrmann et al.   APPLIED AND 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

Effects of Herbivory, Fire and N2-fixation on Nutrient Limitation in a Humid African Savanna

(2008) Patrick G. Cech et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

(2008) P. G. Falkowski et al.   SCIENCE