Globally, forests represent highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks where soil
organic matter is formed from residuals after biomass decomposition as well as from …

Mycorrhizal fungal networks linking the roots of trees in forests are increasingly recognized
to facilitate inter-tree communication via resource, defense, and kin recognition signaling …

Highlights•Interactions between roots and the soil microbiome have a co-evolutionary
component.•The development of suppressive soils is related to soil microbiome …

Adaptive behaviour of plants, including rapid changes in physiology, gene regulation and
defence response, can be altered when linked to neighbouring plants by a mycorrhizal …

Disturbances have altered community dynamics in boreal forests with unknown
consequences for belowground ecological processes. Soil fungi are particularly sensitive to …

A key aspect of global forest management, woodland use intensity (WUI) greatly affects the
composition and diversity of soil microbial communities, thereby affecting multiple …

The loss of tree health is a global concern with many unknown cascading impacts on the
diversity and function of forest ecosystems. Specifically, it is uncertain how the process of …

Fertilization is a fundamental aspect of global forest management that enhances forest
productivity and drastically affects soil microbial communities. However, few studies have …

The mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae, is an eruptive endemic forest
pest that is undergoing substantial range expansion in response to recent climatic changes …

Periodic mountain pine beetle outbreaks have killed millions of hectares of lodgepole pine
forests in western North America. Within these forests some pine trees often remain alive. It …