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 …

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

JI Prosser, GW Nicol - Trends in microbiology, 2012 - cell.com
Autotrophic archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidisers (AOA and AOB) drive soil nitrification.
Ammonia limitation, mixotrophy, and pH have been suggested as factors providing niche …

Environmental filtering drives distinct continental atlases of soil archaea between dryland and wetland agricultural ecosystems

S Jiao, Y Xu, J Zhang, Y Lu - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background Understanding the spatial distributions and ecological diversity of soil archaeal
communities in agricultural ecosystems is crucial for improvements in crop productivity …

pH-dependent distribution of soil ammonia oxidizers across a large geographical scale as revealed by high-throughput pyrosequencing

HW Hu, LM Zhang, Y Dai, HJ Di, JZ He - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) are ubiquitous and
important for nitrogen transformations in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the distribution …

Linking phylogenetic niche conservatism to soil archaeal biogeography, community assembly and species coexistence

S Jiao, W Chen, G Wei - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim A predictive understanding of the mechanisms underlying microbial biogeographical
patterns is of great interest, particularly with respect to phylogenetic distributions of their …

Correlations between microbial tetraether lipids and environmental variables in Chinese soils: Optimizing the paleo-reconstructions in semi-arid and arid regions

H Yang, RD Pancost, X Dang, X Zhou… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The bacterial membrane lipid-based continental paleothermometer, the MBT/CBT or MBT′–
CBT proxy (methylation index of branched tetraethers/cyclization of branched tetraethers) …

Altitudinal distribution patterns of soil bacterial and archaeal communities along Mt. Shegyla on the Tibetan Plateau

JT Wang, P Cao, HW Hu, J Li, LL Han, LM Zhang… - Microbial ecology, 2015 - Springer
Unraveling the distribution patterns of plants and animals along the elevational gradients
has been attracting growing scientific interests of ecologists, whether the microbial …

Long-term nitrogen fertilization of paddy soil shifts iron-reducing microbial community revealed by RNA-13C-acetate probing coupled with pyrosequencing

LJ Ding, JQ Su, HJ Xu, ZJ Jia, YG Zhu - The ISME journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Iron reduction is an important biogeochemical process in paddy soils, yet little is known
about the microbial coupling between nitrogen and iron reduction. Here, we investigated the …

Analysis of the Microbial Community Structure by Monitoring an Hg Methylation Gene (hgcA) in Paddy Soils along an Hg Gradient

YR Liu, RQ Yu, YM Zheng, JZ He - Applied and environmental …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Knowledge of the diversity of mercury (Hg)-methylating microbes in the environment is
limited due to a lack of available molecular biomarkers. Here, we developed novel …

Bacterial community in alpine grasslands along an altitudinal gradient on the Tibetan Plateau

Y Yuan, G Si, J Wang, T Luo… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau,'the third pole', is a region that is very sensitive to climate
change. A better understanding of response of soil microorganisms to climate warming is …