Unveiling the crucial role of soil microorganisms in carbon cycling: A review

H Wu, H Cui, C Fu, R Li, F Qi, Z Liu, G Yang… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil microorganisms, by actively participating in the decomposition and transformation of
organic matter through diverse metabolic pathways, play a pivotal role in carbon cycling …

[HTML][HTML] Scientists' warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

R Cavicchioli, WJ Ripple, KN Timmis, F Azam… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In the Anthropocene, in which we now live, climate change is impacting most life on Earth.
Microorganisms support the existence of all higher trophic life forms. To understand how …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria

S Roux, AP Camargo, FH Coutinho, SM Dabdoub… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The extraordinary diversity of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea is now primarily studied
through metagenomics. While metagenomes enable high-throughput exploration of the viral …

Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth's RNA virome

AA Zayed, JM Wainaina, G Dominguez-Huerta… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Whereas DNA viruses are known to be abundant, diverse, and commonly key ecosystem
players, RNA viruses are insufficiently studied outside disease settings. In this study, we …

Environmental stress destabilizes microbial networks

DJ Hernandez, AS David, ES Menges… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Environmental stress is increasing worldwide, yet we lack a clear picture of how stress
disrupts the stability of microbial communities and the ecosystem services they provide …

Low shifts in salinity determined assembly processes and network stability of microeukaryotic plankton communities in a subtropical urban reservoir

Y Mo, F Peng, X Gao, P **ao, R Logares, E Jeppesen… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Freshwater salinization may result in significant changes of microbial
community composition and diversity, with implications for ecosystem processes and …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological stability of microbial communities in Lake Donghu regulated by keystone taxa

S Liu, H Yu, Y Yu, J Huang, Z Zhou, J Zeng, P Chen… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seasonal variations of environmental factors generally result in considerable changes in
microbiomes, yet we still lack a clear understanding of how microbial communities maintain …

Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

A Gonzalez, RM Germain, DS Srivastava… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily
focused on small scales. We review the current theory and identify six expectations for scale …