Microbial oxidation of atmospheric trace gases

C Greening, R Grinter - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The atmosphere has recently been recognized as a major source of energy sustaining life.
Diverse aerobic bacteria oxidize the three most abundant reduced trace gases in the …

Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from 'Newtonian'to 'Darwinian'approaches

DS Glazier - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Life's size and tempo are intimately linked. The rate of metabolism varies with body mass in
remarkably regular ways that can often be described by a simple power function, where the …

Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields

S Jiao, Y Lu - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soil communities are intricately linked to ecosystem functioning, and a predictive
understanding of how communities assemble in response to environmental change is of …

Disease-induced changes in plant microbiome assembly and functional adaptation

M Gao, C ** marine bacterial versus protist communities
W Wu, HP Lu, A Sastri, YC Yeh, GC Gong… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A central challenge in microbial ecology is to understand the underlying mechanisms driving
community assembly, particularly in the continuum of species sorting and dispersal …

Metabolic trait diversity shapes marine biogeography

C Deutsch, JL Penn, B Seibel - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Climate and physiology shape biogeography, yet the range limits of species can rarely be
ascribed to the quantitative traits of organisms,–. Here we evaluate whether the …

Nonlinearity of root trait relationships and the root economics spectrum

D Kong, J Wang, H Wu, OJ Valverde-Barrantes… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The root economics spectrum (RES), a common hypothesis postulating a tradeoff between
resource acquisition and conservation traits, is being challenged by conflicting relationships …

Carbon use efficiency of microbial communities: stoichiometry, methodology and modelling

RL Sinsabaugh, S Manzoni, DL Moorhead… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon use efficiency (CUE) is a fundamental parameter for ecological models based on the
physiology of microorganisms. CUE determines energy and material flows to higher trophic …

Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry and ecological theory

RL Sinsabaugh, JJ Follstad Shah - Annual review of ecology …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The net primary production of the biosphere is consumed largely by microorganisms, whose
metabolism creates the trophic base for detrital foodwebs, drives element cycles, and …