[HTML][HTML] Changes through time: integrating microorganisms into the study of succession

N Fierer, D Nemergut, R Knight, JM Craine - Research in microbiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Ecologists have documented the process of plant succession for centuries, yet the
successional patterns exhibited by microbial communities have received relatively little …

Microbially-driven strategies for bioremediation of bauxite residue

TC Santini, JL Kerr, LA Warren - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2015 - Elsevier
Globally, 3 Gt of bauxite residue is currently in storage, with an additional 120 Mt generated
every year. Bauxite residue is an alkaline, saline, sodic, massive, and fine grained material …

Soil microbiomes with distinct assemblies through vertical soil profiles drive the cycling of multiple nutrients in reforested ecosystems

S Jiao, W Chen, J Wang, N Du, Q Li, G Wei - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background Soil microbiomes play an important role in the services and functioning of
terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known of their vertical responses to restoration …

A global synthesis of biodiversity responses to glacier retreat

S Cauvy-Fraunié, O Dangles - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019 - nature.com
Glaciers cover about 10% of the Earth's land area but they are retreating rapidly and many
will disappear within decades. Glacier retreat is a worldwide phenomenon increasing the …

Disentangling mechanisms that mediate the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in microbial succession

F Dini-Andreote, JC Stegen, JD Van Elsas… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
Ecological succession and the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes are
two major themes within microbial ecology, but these conceptual domains have mostly …

Soil bacterial and fungal communities show distinct recovery patterns during forest ecosystem restoration

S Sun, S Li, BN Avera, BD Strahm… - Applied and …, 2017 - journals.asm.org
Bacteria and fungi are important mediators of biogeochemical processes and play essential
roles in the establishment of plant communities, which makes knowledge about their …

Evaluation of methods for the extraction and purification of DNA from the human microbiome

S Yuan, DB Cohen, J Ravel, Z Abdo, LJ Forney - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background DNA extraction is an essential step in all cultivation-independent approaches to
characterize microbial diversity, including that associated with the human body. A …

Dynamics of bacterial community succession in a salt marsh chronosequence: evidences for temporal niche partitioning

F Dini-Andreote, M de Cássia Pereira e Silva… - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The mechanisms underlying community assembly and promoting temporal succession are
often overlooked in microbial ecology. Here, we studied an undisturbed salt marsh …

Bacterial, archaeal and fungal succession in the forefield of a receding glacier

A Zumsteg, J Luster, H Göransson, RH Smittenberg… - Microbial ecology, 2012 - Springer
Glacier forefield chronosequences, initially composed of barren substrate after glacier
retreat, are ideal locations to study primary microbial colonization and succession in a …

Vertical distribution of the soil microbiota along a successional gradient in a glacier forefield

T Rime, M Hartmann, I Brunner, F Widmer… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial patterns of microbial communities have been extensively surveyed in well‐
developed soils, but few studies investigated the vertical distribution of micro‐organisms in …