Namib Desert edaphic bacterial, fungal and archaeal communities assemble through deterministic processes but are influenced by different abiotic parameters

Unique Microbial Phylotypes in Namib Desert Dune and Gravel Plain Fairy Circle Soils

(2016) Andries J. van der Walt et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Unpredictable assembly of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

(2016) Jeff R. Powell et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Metaviromics of Namib Desert Salt Pans: A Novel Lineage of Haloarchaeal Salterproviruses and a Rich Source of ssDNA Viruses

(2016) Evelien Adriaenssens et al.   Viruses-Basel

Microbes as Engines of Ecosystem Function: When Does Community Structure Enhance Predictions of Ecosystem Processes?

(2016) Emily B. Graham et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The effects of increased flow and fine sediment on hyporheic invertebrates and nutrients in stream mesocosms

(2015) Iwan Jones et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

The influence of surface soil physicochemistry on the edaphic bacterial communities in contrasting terrain types of the Central Namib Desert

(2015) S. Gombeer et al.   Geobiology

Cyanobacteria drive community composition and functionality in rock-soil interface communities

(2015) Angel Valverde et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The role of stochasticity differs in the assembly of soil- and root-associated fungal communities

(2015) Sarah Beck et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil aggregation: Influence on microbial biomass and implications for biological processes

(2015) Vadakattu V.S.R. Gupta et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Deterministic processes vary during community assembly for ecologically dissimilar taxa

(2015) Jeff R. Powell et al.   Nature Communications

Water regime history drives responses of soil Namib Desert microbial communities to wetting events

(2015) Aline Frossard et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2015) Sandra Ronca et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Community fingerprinting in a sequencing world

(2014) Josie van Dorst et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

A sequential co-extraction method for DNA, RNA and protein recovery from soil for future system-based approaches

(2014) Eoin Gunnigle et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Ecological Perspectives on Microbes Involved in N-Cycling

(2014) Kazuo Isobe et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Niche-Partitioning of Edaphic Microbial Communities in the Namib Desert Gravel Plain Fairy Circles

(2014) Jean-Baptiste Ramond et al.   PLoS One

Untangling the fungal niche: the trait-based approach

(2014) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Ecological coherence of diversity patterns derived from classical fingerprinting and Next Generation Sequencing techniques

(2013) Angélique Gobet et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert

(2013) Francesca Stomeo et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to extreme desiccation and rewetting

(2013) Romain L Barnard et al.   ISME Journal

Patterns and Processes of Microbial Community Assembly

(2013) D. R. Nemergut et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Abiotic Factors Shape Microbial Diversity in Sonoran Desert Soils

(2012) David R. Andrew et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial community structure and its relationship to soil physico-chemical characteristics in alder stands with different management histories

(2012) Jens-Konrad Preem et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Delineation of site specific nutrient management zones for a paddy cultivated area based on soil fertility using fuzzy clustering

(2012) N. Davatgar et al.   GEODERMA

Aeolian geomorphology of the Namib Sand Sea

(2012) I. Livingstone   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

The nature of moisture at Gobabeb, in the central Namib Desert

(2012) F.D. Eckardt et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Patterns of diversity for fungal assemblages of biological soil crusts from the southwestern United States

(2012) Scott T. Bates et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

(2012) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidisers in soil: the quest for niche specialisation and differentiation

(2012) James I. Prosser et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence of species recruitment and development of hot desert hypolithic communities

(2012) Thulani P. Makhalanyane et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Soil characteristics more strongly influence soil bacterial communities than land-use type

(2011) Eiko E. Kuramae et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Stochastic and deterministic processes interact in the assembly of desert microbial communities on a global scale

(2011) Tancredi Caruso et al.   ISME Journal

Novel primers for 16S rRNA-based archaeal community analyses in environmental samples

(2010) Stephan Gantner et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Priming effects: Interactions between living and dead organic matter

(2010) Yakov Kuzyakov   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Improved estimation of neutral model parameters for multiple samples with different degrees of dispersal limitation

(2009) Rampal S. Etienne   ECOLOGY

Biogeography of soil archaea and bacteria along a steep precipitation gradient

(2009) Roey Angel et al.   ISME Journal

Relative roles of niche and neutral processes in structuring a soil microbial community

(2009) Alex J Dumbrell et al.   ISME Journal

Linking Microbial Community Structure and Function to Seasonal Differences in Soil Moisture and Temperature in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

(2009) Colin W. Bell et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

An examination of the bacteriophages and bacteria of the Namib desert

(2008) Eric Prestel et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

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

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