Protists include all eukaryotes except plants, fungi and animals. They are an essential, yet
often forgotten, component of the soil microbiome. Method developments have now …

We foresee a new global-scale, ecological approach to biomonitoring emerging within the
next decade that can detect ecosystem change accurately, cheaply, and generically. Next …

Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition,
symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high …

The application of sewage sludge as soil amendment is a common agricultural practice.
However, wastewater treatment plants, sewage sludge and sewage sludge-amended soils …

Microbial communities in arctic–alpine soils show biogeographic patterns related to
elevation, but the effect of fine-scale heterogeneity and possibly related temperature and soil …

Plant diversity has long been assumed to predict soil microbial diversity. However,
contradictory results have been found when examining their relationships, particularly at …

The distribution patterns of the microbial community and enzyme activity in soil systems
along an elevation gradient have attracted considerable attention; however, the differences …

The recent discovery of complete ammonia oxidation (comammox) has increased our
understanding of nitrification. Although comammox has been shown to play an important …

Serving as “natural laboratories”, altitudinal gradients can be used to study changes in the
distribution of microorganisms in response to changing environmental conditions that …

Livestock manure-derived amendments can be beneficial for agricultural soil quality, as they
can increase the content of soil organic matter and nutrients, stimulate microbial activity and …