Fine roots acquire essential soil resources and mediate biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial
ecosystems. Estimates of carbon and nutrient allocation to build and maintain these …

The fungal symbionts forming ectomycorrhizas, as well as their associated bacteria, benefit
forest trees in a number of ways although the most important is enhancing soil nutrient …

Whether niche processes, like environmental filtering, or neutral processes, like dispersal
limitation, are the primary forces driving community assembly is a central question in …

An increasing number of studies utilize enzymatic C: N: P stoichiometry (Sinsabaugh et al.,
2009) to infer nutrient limitation of soil microorganisms (Feyissa et al., 2022, **e et al., 2022 …

Microbial cellulases have been receiving worldwide attention, as they have enormous
potential to process the most abundant cellulosic biomass on this planet and transform it into …

Rhizosphere microorganisms have two faces, like Janus the Roman god of gates and doors
who symbolizes changes and transitions, from one condition to another. One face looks at …

Dispersal limitation plays an important role in a number of equilibrium and nonequilibrium
theories about community ecology. In this study we use the framework of island …

Globally, phosphorus (P) limits productivity of trees in many forests and plantations
especially in highly weathered, acidic or calcareous profiles. Most trees form mycorrhizal …

Cellulose, the major constituent of all plant materials and the most abundant organic
molecule on the Earth, is a linear biopolymer of glucose molecules, connected by β-1, 4 …

Soil fungi belonging to different functional guilds, such as saprotrophs, pathogens, and
mycorrhizal symbionts, play key roles in forest ecosystems. To date, no study has compared …