Microorganisms have critical roles in the functioning of soil in nutrient cycling, structural
formation, and plant interactions, both positive and negative. These roles are important in …

Metagenomics approaches represent an important way to acquire information on the
microbial communities present in complex environments like soil. However, to what extent …

THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles
Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …

Soil microbial community characterization is increasingly being used to determine the
responses of soils to stress and disturbances and to assess ecosystem sustainability …

Recent progress has revealed that the capture of genetic resources of complex microbial
communities in metagenome libraries allows the discovery of a richness of new enzymatic …

While it is now widely accepted that microorganisms provide essential functions in
restoration ecology, the nature of relationships between microbial community assembly and …

The Amazon rainforest, the largest equatorial forest in the world, is being cleared for pasture
and agricultural use at alarming rates. Tropical deforestation is known to cause alterations in …

The nitrogen (N)-fixing community is a key functional community in soil, as it replenishes the
pool of biologically available N that is lost to the atmosphere via anaerobic ammonium …

N2-fixation by free-living (diazotrophic) microorganism is a key process affecting ecosystem
functioning in soils. Understanding drivers affecting diazotrophic community assemblages …

摘要围栏封育是恢复退化草场的主要措施, 但随着围栏年限增加, 围栏产生的不利影响日益凸显.
土壤微生物是评价草地土壤质量的重要参数, 通过综述围栏工程对土壤理化性质, 细菌 …