Soil aggregate microbial communities: towards understanding microbiome interactions at biologically relevant scales

RL Wilpiszeski, JA Aufrecht, ST Retterer… - Applied and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Soils contain a tangle of minerals, water, nutrients, gases, plant roots, decaying organic
matter, and microorganisms which work together to cycle nutrients and support terrestrial …

Trends in microbial community composition and function by soil depth

D Naylor, R McClure, J Jansson - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microbial communities play important roles in soil health, contributing to processes such as
the turnover of organic matter and nutrient cycling. As soil edaphic properties such as …

Microbial hotspots and hot moments in soil: concept & review

Y Kuzyakov, E Blagodatskaya - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Soils are the most heterogeneous parts of the biosphere, with an extremely high
differentiation of properties and processes within nano-to macroscales. The spatial and …

Biophysical processes supporting the diversity of microbial life in soil

R Tecon, D Or - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Soil, the living terrestrial skin of the Earth, plays a central role in supporting life and is home
to an unimaginable diversity of microorganisms. This review explores key drivers for …

Emergent properties of microbial activity in heterogeneous soil microenvironments: different research approaches are slowly converging, yet major challenges remain

PC Baveye, W Otten, A Kravchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over the last 60 years, soil microbiologists have accumulated a wealth of experimental data
showing that the bulk, macroscopic parameters (eg, granulometry, pH, soil organic matter …

Root nutrient foraging

RFH Giehl, N von Wirén - Plant physiology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
During a plant's lifecycle, the availability of nutrients in the soil is mostly heterogeneous in
space and time. Plants are able to adapt to nutrient shortage or localized nutrient availability …

Micro-scale determinants of bacterial diversity in soil

M Vos, AB Wolf, SJ Jennings… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Soil habitats contain vast numbers of microorganisms and harbor a large portion of the
planet's biological diversity. Although high-throughput sequencing technologies continue to …

[PDF][PDF] A threshold selection method from gray-level histograms

N Otsu - Automatica, 1975 - dspace.tul.cz
Summary 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for eubacteria (EUB338), ammonium-
oxidizing bacteria (Nsm156) and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (Nb1000) were used for the rapid …

[KNIHA][B] Fundamentals of soil ecology

DC Coleman, MA Callaham, DA Crossley Jr - 2017 - books.google.com
Fundamentals of Soil Ecology, 3rd Edition, offers a holistic approach to soil biology and
ecosystem function, providing students and ecosystem researchers with a greater …

Spatial ecology of bacteria at the microscale in soil

X Raynaud, N Nunan - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Despite an exceptional number of bacterial cells and species in soils, bacterial diversity
seems to have little effect on soil processes, such as respiration or nitrification, that can be …