A systematic review of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in estuarine and coastal environments

D Zheng, G Yin, M Liu, C Chen, Y Jiang, L Hou… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are prevalent in estuarine and coastal
environments due to substantial terrestrial input, aquaculture effluent, and sewage …

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 …

Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

FT de Vries, RI Griffiths, M Bailey, H Craig… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Soil microbial communities play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning, but it is unknown
how co-occurrence networks within these communities respond to disturbances such as …

Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria

H Daims, EV Lebedeva, P Pjevac, P Han, C Herbold… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia via nitrite to nitrate, has always been considered to be
a two-step process catalysed by chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms oxidizing either …

Nitrous oxide production by ammonia oxidizers: physiological diversity, niche differentiation and potential mitigation strategies

JI Prosser, L Hink, C Gubry‐Rangin… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidation of ammonia to nitrite by bacteria and archaea is responsible for global emissions
of nitrous oxide directly and indirectly through provision of nitrite and, after further oxidation …

Controls and adaptive management of nitrification in agricultural soils

J Norton, Y Ouyang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Agriculture is responsible for over half of the input of reactive nitrogen (N) to terrestrial
systems; however improving N availability remains the primary management technique 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 …

Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes

RJE Alves, BQ Minh, T Urich, A von Haeseler… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Ammonia-oxidising archaea (AOA) are ubiquitous and abundant in nature and play a major
role in nitrogen cycling. AOA have been studied intensively based on the amoA gene …

Microbial functional genes involved in nitrogen fixation, nitrification and denitrification in forest ecosystems

DJ Levy-Booth, CE Prescott, SJ Grayston - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
The understanding of nitrogen (N) cycling in forest ecosystems has undergone a major shift
in the past decade as molecular methods are being used to link microorganisms to key …

The consequences of niche and physiological differentiation of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidisers for nitrous oxide emissions

L Hink, C Gubry-Rangin, GW Nicol… - The ISME journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
High and low rates of ammonium supply are believed to favour ammonia-oxidising bacteria
(AOB) and archaea (AOA), respectively. Although their contrasting affinities for ammonium …