Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss

RS Peixoto, CR Voolstra, M Sweet, CM Duarte… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global biodiversity loss and mass extinction of species are two of the most critical
environmental issues the world is currently facing, resulting in the disruption of various …

Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?

J Zhou, D Ning - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

D Ning, M Yuan, L Wu, Y Zhang, X Guo, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …

Plant developmental stage drives the differentiation in ecological role of the maize microbiome

C **ong, BK Singh, JZ He, YL Han, PP Li, LH Wan… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Plants live with diverse microbial communities which profoundly affect multiple
facets of host performance, but if and how host development impacts the assembly, functions …

Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

L Wu, D Ning, B Zhang, Y Li, P Zhang, X Shan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are essential for water purification
to protect public and environmental health. However, the diversity of microorganisms and …

A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity

D Ning, Y Deng, JM Tiedje… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the community assembly mechanisms controlling biodiversity patterns is a
central issue in ecology. Although it is generally accepted that both deterministic and …

Soil pH mediates the balance between stochastic and deterministic assembly of bacteria

BM Tripathi, JC Stegen, M Kim, K Dong… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Little is known about the factors affecting the relative influences of stochastic and
deterministic processes that govern the assembly of microbial communities in successional …

Rare taxa maintain the stability of crop mycobiomes and ecosystem functions

C **ong, JZ He, BK Singh, YG Zhu… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plants harbour highly diverse mycobiomes which sustain essential functions for host health
and productivity. However, ecological processes that govern the plant–mycobiome …

Embracing mountain microbiome and ecosystem functions under global change

J Wang, A Hu, F Meng, W Zhao, Y Yang… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mountains are pivotal to maintaining habitat heterogeneity, global biodiversity, ecosystem
functions and services to humans. They have provided classic model natural systems for …

Environmental stress mediates groundwater microbial community assembly

D Ning, Y Wang, Y Fan, J Wang, JD Van Nostrand… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Community assembly describes how different ecological processes shape microbial
community composition and structure. How environmental factors impact community …