Forest microbiome and global change

P Baldrian, R López-Mondéjar, P Kohout - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Forests influence climate and mitigate global change through the storage of carbon in soils.
In turn, these complex ecosystems face important challenges, including increases in carbon …

A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

GT Freschet, L Pagès, CM Iversen, LH Comas… - New …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

Mycorrhizal fungi as mediators of soil organic matter dynamics

SD Frey - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Inhabiting the interface between plant roots and soil, mycorrhizal fungi play a unique but
underappreciated role in soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics. Their hyphae provide an …

Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

NW Sokol, SE Kuebbing, E Karlsen‐Ayala… - New …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is primarily formed from plant inputs, but the relative carbon (C)
contributions from living root inputs (ie rhizodeposits) vs litter inputs (ie root+ shoot litter) are …

Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below‐ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

ML McCormack, IA Dickie, DM Eissenstat… - New …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Fine roots acquire essential soil resources and mediate biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial
ecosystems. Estimates of carbon and nutrient allocation to build and maintain these …

A holistic framework integrating plant-microbe-mineral regulation of soil bioavailable nitrogen

AB Daly, A Jilling, TM Bowles, RW Buchkowski… - Biogeochemistry, 2021‏ - Springer
Soil organic nitrogen (N) is a critical resource for plants and microbes, but the processes that
govern its cycle are not well-described. To promote a holistic understanding of soil N …

The ecology of soil carbon: pools, vulnerabilities, and biotic and abiotic controls

RB Jackson, K Lajtha, SE Crow… - Annual review of …, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
Soil organic matter (SOM) anchors global terrestrial productivity and food and fiber supply.
SOM retains water and soil nutrients and stores more global carbon than do plants and the …

Minerals in the rhizosphere: overlooked mediators of soil nitrogen availability to plants and microbes

A Jilling, M Keiluweit, AR Contosta, S Frey, J Schimel… - Biogeochemistry, 2018‏ - Springer
Despite decades of research progress, ecologists are still debating which pools and fluxes
provide nitrogen (N) to plants and soil microbes across different ecosystems …

Paradigm shift in plant growth control

C Körner - Current opinion in plant biology, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Source activity (photosynthesis) depends on sink activity (tissue growth).•
Environmental stress constrains sink activity before it affects source activity.•Under drought …

Ectomycorrhizal fungi–potential organic matter decomposers, yet not saprotrophs

BD Lindahl, A Tunlid - New Phytologist, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although hypothesized for many years, the involvement of ectomycorrhizal fungi in
decomposition of soil organic matter remains controversial and has not yet been fully …