Diversity and function of soil microbes on montane gradients: the state of knowledge in a changing world

CI Looby, PH Martin - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Mountains have a long history in the study of diversity. Like macroscopic taxa, soil microbes
are hypothesized to be strongly structured by montane gradients, and recently there has …

Abundance and diversity of bacterial, archaeal, and fungal communities along an altitudinal gradient in alpine forest soils: what are the driving factors?

JA Siles, R Margesin - Microbial ecology, 2016 - Springer
Shifts in soil microbial communities over altitudinal gradients and the driving factors are
poorly studied. Their elucidation is indispensable to gain a comprehensive understanding of …

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 …

High microbial diversity stabilizes the responses of soil organic carbon decomposition to warming in the subsoil on the Tibetan Plateau

M Xu, X Li, TW Kuyper, M Xu, X Li… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil microbes are directly involved in soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition, yet the
importance of microbial biodiversity in regulating the temperature sensitivity of SOC …

Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

AT Nottingham, N Fierer, BL Turner, J Whitaker… - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
More than 200 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt reported that tropical plant species
richness decreased with increasing elevation and decreasing temperature. Surprisingly …

Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences

Z Dai, H Zang, J Chen, Y Fu, X Wang… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Diversity and community composition of soil microorganisms along the elevation
climosequences have been widely studied, while the microbial metabolic potential …

Effects of organic substitution for synthetic N fertilizer on soil bacterial diversity and community composition: A 10-year field trial in a tea plantation

L Ji, Z Wu, Z You, X Yi, K Ni, S Guo, J Ruan - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Substitution of chemical nitrogen (N) with organic fertilizers in agricultural ecosystems has
been promoted to sustain crop yield and soil quality. Soil microbes play key roles in soil …

Soil pH dominates elevational diversity pattern for bacteria in high elevation alkaline soils on the Tibetan Plateau

C Shen, Y Shi, K Fan, JS He, JM Adams… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Although studies of elevational diversity gradient for microbes have attracted considerable
attention, the generality of these patterns and their underlying drivers are still poorly …

Contrasting altitudinal patterns and co-occurrence networks of soil bacterial and fungal communities along soil depths in the cold-temperate montane forests of China

L Ji, F Shen, Y Liu, Y Yang, J Wang, W Purahong… - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil bacterial and fungal communities with different key ecological functions play important
roles in boreal forest ecosystems. Although several studies have reported on the altitudinal …

Soil pH and organic carbon properties drive soil bacterial communities in surface and deep layers along an elevational gradient

Q Tian, Y Jiang, Y Tang, Y Wu, Z Tang… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Elevational gradients strongly affect the spatial distribution and structure of soil bacterial
communities. However, our understanding of the effects and determining factors is still …