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 …

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 …

Microorganisms exist throughout the soil profile and those microorganisms living in sub-
surface horizons likely play key roles in nutrient cycling and soil formation. However, the …

Despite their low carbon (C) content, most subsoil horizons contribute to more than half of
the total soil C stocks, and therefore need to be considered in the global C cycle. Until …

Although belowground ecosystems have been studied extensively and soil biota play
integral roles in biogeochemical processes, surprisingly we have a limited understanding of …

Soil profiles are often many meters deep, but with the majority of studies in soil microbiology
focusing exclusively on the soil surface, we know very little about the nature of the microbial …

Extracellular enzymes in soils mediate the decomposition of organic matter and catalyze key
transformations in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling. However, most studies of …

Many studies have investigated patterns in the near‐surface soil microbial community over
large spatial scales. However, less is known about variation in subsurface (15–30 cm of …

The diversity of bacteria in soil is enormous, and soil bacterial communities can vary greatly
in structure. Here, we employed a pyrosequencing-based analysis of the V2-V3 16S rRNA …

Microbial community composition was examined in two soil types, Anthrosols and adjacent
soils, sampled from three locations in the Brazilian Amazon. The Anthrosols, also known as …