Soil microorganisms, by actively participating in the decomposition and transformation of
organic matter through diverse metabolic pathways, play a pivotal role in carbon cycling …

Soil organic matter is the dominant carbon pool in terrestrial ecosystems, and its
management is of increasing policy relevance. Soil microbes are the main drivers of soil …

Soil microorganisms shape global element cycles in life and death. Living soil
microorganisms are a major engine of terrestrial biogeochemistry, driving the turnover of soil …

The pervasive use of antibiotics in agriculture and animal husbandry has raised a significant
concern—residual antibiotic contamination in food, which contributes to the natural evolution …

Soil microbiomes are highly diverse, and to improve their representation in biogeochemical
models, microbial genome data can be leveraged to infer key functional traits. By integrating …

Soil carbon feedbacks to global change are uncertain, and the biological processes that
govern soil organic matter decomposition are not resolved in current ecosystem models …

Background Linking the identity of wild microbes with their ecophysiological traits and
environmental functions is a key ambition for microbial ecologists. Of many techniques that …

Measuring the growth rate of a microorganism is a simple yet profound way to quantify its
effect on the world. The absolute growth rate of a microbial population reflects rates of …

Background Winter carbon loss in northern ecosystems is estimated to be greater than the
average growing season carbon uptake and is primarily driven by microbial decomposers …

Candidate bacterial phylum Omnitrophota has not been isolated and is poorly understood.
We analysed 72 newly sequenced and 349 existing Omnitrophota genomes representing 6 …