Trends in microbial community composition and function by soil depth

D Naylor, R McClure, J Jansson - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microbial communities play important roles in soil health, contributing to processes such as
the turnover of organic matter and nutrient cycling. As soil edaphic properties such as …

Forest microbiome: diversity, complexity and dynamics

P Baldrian - FEMS Microbiology reviews, 2017 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Nitrification and nitrifiers in acidic soils

Y Li, SJ Chapman, GW Nicol, H Yao - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Nitrification, as a crucial step in nitrogen cycling and plant nutrition, is a biologically
mediated process responsible for enormous losses of nitrogen fertilizer and a contributor to …

Microbial regulation of terrestrial nitrous oxide formation: understanding the biological pathways for prediction of emission rates

HW Hu, D Chen, JZ He - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The continuous increase of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) in the atmosphere due
to increasing anthropogenic nitrogen input in agriculture has become a global concern. In …

Nitrogen transformations

GP Robertson, PM Groffman - Soil microbiology, ecology and biochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Nitrogen is essential for life on Earth. Soil biota are responsible for its accumulation,
persistence, and loss from ecosystems. Microbial nitrogen transformations include its …

Comammox—a newly discovered nitrification process in the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

HW Hu, JZ He - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2017 - Springer
Purpose Nitrification, the microbial oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, is a pivotal
component of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. Nitrification was conventionally assumed …

Comammox Nitrospira play an active role in nitrification of agricultural soils amended with nitrogen fertilizers

C Li, HW Hu, QL Chen, D Chen, JZ He - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
The recent discovery of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox Nitrospira) challenged the
paradigm of the two-step nitrification mediated by two distinct groups of nitrifiers, and raised …

Niche specialization of comammox Nitrospira in terrestrial ecosystems: Oligotrophic or copiotrophic?

C Li, ZY He, HW Hu, JZ He - Critical Reviews in Environmental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The discovery of complete ammonia oxidizers, comammox Nitrospira, represents a
breakthrough in the history of nitrification research. Nitrospira inopinata, which was obtained …

Diversity patterns of the rhizosphere and bulk soil microbial communities along an altitudinal gradient in an alpine ecosystem of the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Y Cui, H Bing, L Fang, Y Wu, J Yu, G Shen, M Jiang… - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
The diversity patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in altitudinal gradients have
recently received much attention. The rhizosphere is a focus of soil microbial communities …

Transient nitrite accumulation explains the variation of N2O emissions to N fertilization in upland agricultural soils

Y Li, X Ju, D Wu - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) fertilization in agricultural soils is the largest anthropogenic source of nitrous
oxide (N 2 O) emissions, but the underlying mechanism of the varied response of N 2 O …