Defending Earth's terrestrial microbiome

C Averill, MA Anthony, P Baldrian, F Finkbeiner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial life represents the majority of Earth's biodiversity. Across disparate disciplines from
medicine to forestry, scientists continue to discover how the microbiome drives essential …

Facilitating reforestation through the plant microbiome: perspectives from the phyllosphere

PE Busby, G Newcombe, AS Neat… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Tree planting and natural regeneration contribute to the ongoing effort to restore Earth's
forests. Our review addresses how the plant microbiome can enhance the survival of planted …

Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration

FA Dadzie, AT Moles, TE Erickson… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Seed‐based ecosystem restoration has huge potential to restore degraded drylands.
However, fewer than 10% of directly sown seeds transition to established seedlings. One of …

Manipulating plant microbiomes in the field: Native mycorrhizae advance plant succession and improve native plant restoration

L Koziol, JT Bauer, EB Duell, K Hickman… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The plant microbiome is critical to plant health and is degraded with anthropogenic
disturbance. However, the value of re‐establishing the native microbiome is rarely …

Do bioinoculants affect resident microbial communities? A meta-analysis

C Cornell, V Kokkoris, A Richards, C Horst… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
There is a global industry built upon the production of “bioinoculants,” which include both
bacteria and fungi. The recent increase in bioinoculant uptake by land users coincides with …

Do commercial arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculants contain the species that they claim?

T Vahter, EM Lillipuu, J Oja, M Öpik, M Vasar, I Hiiesalu - Mycorrhiza, 2023 - Springer
The use of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal inoculants as a means to promote plant
growth is gaining momentum worldwide. Although there is an increasing number of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing innovations for upscaling forest landscape restoration

LK Werden, RJ Cole, K Schönhofer, KD Holl… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
There is an increasing urgency to implement large-scale ecosystem restoration to mitigate
the biodiversity and climate crises. These efforts must be scaled up to counteract the …

Inoculation with native soil improves seedling survival and reduces non‐native reinvasion in a grassland restoration

EB Duell, A O'Hare, GWT Wilson - Restoration Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Losses of grasslands have been largely attributed to widespread land‐use changes, such
as conversion to row‐crop agriculture. The remaining tallgrass prairie faces further losses …

Research progress of soil and vegetation restoration technology in open-pit coal mine: A review

D Xu, X Li, J Chen, J Li - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Open-pit mining has caused extensive land destruction, including land abandonment and
reduction in agricultural land, resulting in serious environmental problems. Ecological …

The joint effect of host plant genetic diversity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities on restoration success

T Aavik, S Träger, M Zobel, O Honnay… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Drastic loss in the area and quality of natural and semi‐natural habitats over the last
hundred years has placed biodiversity and related ecosystem functions under substantial …