Decreasing soil microbial diversity is associated with decreasing microbial biomass under nitrogen addition

C Wang, D Liu, E Bai - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
While aboveground biodiversity has been widely studied, how microbial biodiversity
responds to increasing nitrogen (N) deposition is still unclear. Here we conducted a meta …

Biophysical processes supporting the diversity of microbial life in soil

R Tecon, D Or - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Soil, the living terrestrial skin of the Earth, plays a central role in supporting life and is home
to an unimaginable diversity of microorganisms. This review explores key drivers for …

Meta-analysis of the impacts of global change factors on soil microbial diversity and functionality

Z Zhou, C Wang, Y Luo - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Biodiversity on the Earth is changing at an unprecedented rate due to a variety of global
change factors (GCFs). However, the effects of GCFs on microbial diversity is unclear …

Soil microbial network complexity predicts ecosystem function along elevation gradients on the Tibetan Plateau

W Chen, J Wang, X Chen, Z Meng, R Xu… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The contributions of soil microbial diversity for the multifunctionality of ecosystem functions
remain little understood despite the well-known importance of soil microbial communities for …

Deciphering factors driving soil microbial life‐history strategies in restored grasslands

Y Yang, Y Dou, B Wang, Z Xue, Y Wang, S An… - Imeta, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In macroecology, the concept of r‐and K‐strategy has been widely applied, yet, there have
been limited studies on microbial life‐history strategies in temperate grasslands using …

Response of soil properties and microbial communities to agriculture: Implications for primary productivity and soil health indicators

P Trivedi, M Delgado-Baquerizo, IC Anderson… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Agricultural intensification is placing tremendous pressure on the soil's capacity to maintain
its functions leading to large-scale ecosystem degradation and loss of productivity in the …

It is elemental: soil nutrient stoichiometry drives bacterial diversity

M Delgado‐Baquerizo, PB Reich… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
It is well established that resource quantity and elemental stoichiometry play major roles in
sha** below and aboveground plant biodiversity, but their importance for sha** …

Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient

C Shen, A Gunina, Y Luo, J Wang, JZ He… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial elevational diversity patterns have been extensively studied, but their sha**
mechanisms remain to be explored. Here, we examined soil bacterial and fungal diversity …

Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents

R Ochoa‐Hueso, SL Collins… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of short‐term drought on soil microbial communities remain largely unexplored,
particularly at large scales and under field conditions. We used seven experimental sites …

BayMBT: A Bayesian calibration model for branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils and peats

ED Crampton-Flood, JE Tierney, F Peterse… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate temperature records for the deep geological past are a vital component of
paleoclimate research. Distributional changes of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol …