Altered activities of extracellular soil enzymes by the interacting global environmental changes

P Zuccarini, J Sardans, L Asensio… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soil enzymes are crucial in mediating ecosystems' responses to environmental drivers, so
that the comprehension of their sensitivity to drivers of global change can help make …

[HTML][HTML] Will fungi solve the carbon dilemma?

SE Hannula, E Morriën - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Soils are hotspots of diversity and sustain many globally important functions. Here we focus
on the most burning issue: how to keep soils as carbon sinks while maintaining their …

Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community

A Canarini, H Schmidt, L Fuchslueger, V Martin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change is altering the frequency and severity of drought events. Recent evidence
indicates that drought may produce legacy effects on soil microbial communities. However, it …

Afforestation can lower microbial diversity and functionality in deep soil layers in a semiarid region

W Kong, X Wei, Y Wu, M Shao, Q Zhang… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Afforestation is an effective approach to rehabilitate degraded ecosystems, but often
depletes deep soil moisture. Presently, it is not known how an afforestation‐induced …

Tradeoffs among microbial life history strategies influence the fate of microbial residues in subtropical forest soils

P Shao, L Lynch, H Xie, X Bao, C Liang - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial residues play a significant role in the formation of soil organic matter (SOM), but it
is not clear how microbial traits influence residue accrual and SOM persistence. By pairing …

Soil microbial trait-based strategies drive metabolic efficiency along an altitude gradient

J Feng, XM Zeng, Q Zhang, XQ Zhou… - ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Trait-based approaches provide a candidate framework for linking soil microbial community
to ecosystem processes, yet how the trade-offs in different microbial traits regulate the …

Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling

AA Malik, NJ Bouskill - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the impact of drought on microbial processes and its consequences for soil
carbon cycling is hindered by the lack of underlying mechanistic understanding. Therefore …

A framework for soil microbial ecology in urban ecosystems

A Nugent, SD Allison - Ecosphere, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nearly all ecosystems host diverse microbiomes that support vital ecosystem processes. At
the same time, these ecosystems and their microbiomes are increasingly altered by human …

Microbial regulation of feedbacks to ecosystem change

TR Sveen, SE Hannula, M Bahram - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Microbes are key biodiversity components of all ecosystems and control vital ecosystem
functions. Although we have just begun to unravel the scales and factors that regulate …

Simplified microbial network reduced microbial structure stability and soil functionality in alpine grassland along a natural aridity gradient

C Zhang, S Lei, H Wu, L Liao, X Wang, L Zhang… - Soil Biology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing aridity is known to influence the diversity and function of soil microbiome.
However, how it affects the microbial co-occurrence network are poorly understood …