Microbial interactions within the plant holobiont

MA Hassani, P Durán, S Hacquard - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Since the colonization of land by ancestral plant lineages 450 million years ago, plants and
their associated microbes have been interacting with each other, forming an assemblage of …

Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?

J Zhou, D Ning - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields

S Jiao, Y Lu - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soil communities are intricately linked to ecosystem functioning, and a predictive
understanding of how communities assemble in response to environmental change is of …

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 …

Diversity-triggered deterministic bacterial assembly constrains community functions

W Xun, W Li, W **ong, Y Ren, Y Liu, Y Miao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A growing body of evidence suggests that microbial α-diversity (local species richness) may
have positive effects on ecosystem function. However, less attention has been paid to β …

Beneficial effects of endophytic fungi colonization on plants

L Yan, J Zhu, X Zhao, J Shi, C Jiang, D Shao - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
Due to increasingly limited water resources, diminishing farmland acreage, and potentially
negative effects of climate change, an urgent need exists to improve agricultural productivity …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of different concentrations and types of microplastics on bacteria and fungi in alkaline soil

P Fan, W Tan, H Yu - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
The threat of microplastic (MP) pollution of soil ecosystems has aroused global concern;
however, relatively few studies have focused on the effects of MPs on both bacterial and …

Fungal community assembly in drought-stressed sorghum shows stochasticity, selection, and universal ecological dynamics

C Gao, L Montoya, L Xu, M Madera… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Community assembly of crop-associated fungi is thought to be strongly influenced by
deterministic selection exerted by the plant host, rather than stochastic processes. Here we …

A meta‐analysis of nestedness and turnover components of beta diversity across organisms and ecosystems

J Soininen, J Heino, J Wang - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The number of studies investigating the nestedness and turnover components of beta
diversity has increased substantially, but our general understanding of the drivers of …

High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities

S Louca, SMS Jacques, APF Pires, JS Leal… - Nature ecology & …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the processes that are driving variation of natural microbial communities
across space or time is a major challenge for ecologists. Environmental conditions strongly …