The soil microbial community fulfils various functions, such as nutrient cycling and carbon
(C) sequestration, therefore contributing to maintenance of soil fertility and mitigation of …

Terrestrial microbial decomposer communities thrive on a wide range of organic matter
types that rarely ever meet their elemental demands. In this review we synthesize the current …

Microbial mineralization and immobilization of nutrients strongly influence soil fertility. We
studied microbial biomass stoichiometry, microbial community composition, and microbial …

Temperature and nutrient availability play key roles in controlling the pathways and rates at
which energy and materials move through ecosystems. These factors have also changed …

Based on the observation that organism‐specific elemental content creates ecologically
relevant mismatches such as between plant and animal tissue, it was postulated—and …

The reconstruction and analysis of genome-scale metabolic models constitutes a powerful
systems biology approach, with applications ranging from basic understanding of genotype …

Rapidly increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has substantially altered resource
availability and the stoichiometry of microbial biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. However …

Background Variation in microbial metabolism poses one of the greatest current
uncertainties in models of global carbon cycling, and is particularly poorly understood in …

Introduction The availability of essential nutrients, such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P),
can feedback on soil carbon (C) and the soil microbial biomass. Natural cycles can be …

The dominant process adding nitrogen (N) to the ocean, di-nitrogen (N2) fixation, is
mediated by prokaryotes (diazotrophs) sensitive to a variety of environmental factors. In …