Drought re-routes soil microbial carbon metabolism towards emission of volatile metabolites in an artificial tropical rainforest

LK Honeker, G Pugliese, J Ingrisch, J Fudyma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Drought impacts on microbial activity can alter soil carbon fate and lead to the loss of stored
carbon to the atmosphere as CO2 and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Here we …

Quantifying microbial control of soil organic matter dynamics at macrosystem scales

MA Bradford, SA Wood, ET Addicott, EP Fenichel… - Biogeochemistry, 2021 - Springer
Soil organic matter (SOM) stocks, decomposition and persistence are largely the product of
controls that act locally. Yet the controls are shaped and interact at multiple spatiotemporal …

Linking processes to community functions—insights into litter decomposition combining fungal metatranscriptomics and environmental NMR profiling

MA Guerreiro, S Kambach, R Stoll, A Brachmann… - Mycological …, 2023 - Springer
In forest ecosystems, decomposition is essential for carbon and nutrient cycling and
therefore a key process for ecosystem functioning. During the decomposition process, litter …

Soil bacterial and fungal richness forecast patterns of early pine litter decomposition

MBN Albright, R Johansen, J Thompson… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Discovering widespread microbial processes that drive unexpected variation in carbon
cycling may improve modeling and management of soil carbon (;,). A first step is to identify …

Drought conditioning of rhizosphere microbiome influences maize water use traits

KR Carter, AC Nachtsheim, LT Dickman, ER Moore… - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background and Aims Beneficial plant–microbe interactions can improve plant
performance under drought; however, we know less about how drought-induced shifts in …

Microbial community composition controls carbon flux across litter types in early phase of litter decomposition

ME Kroeger, M Rae DeVan, J Thompson… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf litter decomposition is a major carbon input to soil, making it a target for increasing soil
carbon storage through microbiome engineering. We expand upon previous findings to …

Drivers of stability and transience in composition-functioning links during serial propagation of litter-decomposing microbial communities

ER Moore, D Suazo, J Babilonia, KN Montoya… - Msystems, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biotic factors that influence the temporal stability of microbial community functioning are an
emerging research focus for the control of natural and engineered systems. The discovery of …

Long-term N addition leads to microbial C, but not N limitation of poplar plantation soils in eastern China

N Li, X Xu, Z Zhu, L Guo, C Ju, Q Zhang, J Chen… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil extracellular enzymes are vital to regulating soil carbon (C) and nutrient cycling, and
hence affecting soil function. However, how soil enzymes activity will respond to increasing …

Depth-dependent effects of leguminous crops on soil nitrogen-fixing microbial communities

YH Tao, Y Fan, S Pang, SH Zhang… - Journal of Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Legumes play critical roles in agroecosystems by modulating nitrogen-fixing
microorganisms to enhance soil fertility and promote crop productivity. Current research on …

Merging fungal and bacterial community profiles via an internal control

MI Hutchinson, TAS Bell, LV Gallegos-Graves… - Microbial ecology, 2021 - Springer
Integrated measurements of fungi and bacteria are critical to understand how interactions
between these taxa drive key processes in ecosystems ranging from soils to animal guts …