BACKGROUND Soil is the largest repository of organic matter on land, storing~ 1500 Gt carbon, which is at least as much as the vegetation (~ 560 Gt) and atmosphere (~ 750 Gt) …
K Witzgall, A Vidal, DI Schubert, C Höschen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The largest terrestrial organic carbon pool, carbon in soils, is regulated by an intricate connection between plant carbon inputs, microbial activity, and the soil matrix. This is …
D Naylor, D Coleman-Derr - Frontiers in plant science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Root-associated bacterial communities play a vital role in maintaining health of the plant host. These communities exist in complex relationships, where composition and abundance …
The ecology of forest soils is an important field of research due to the role of forests as carbon sinks. Consequently, a significant amount of information has been accumulated …
Niche breadth is a unifying concept spanning diverse aspects of ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. Niche breadth usually refers to the diversity of resources used or …
A Dubey, MA Malla, F Khan, K Chowdhary… - Biodiversity and …, 2019 - Springer
Maintenance of soil health is central to agricultural sustainability and a key factor that reflects the productivity of agro ecosystems. However, at present the soil resources are under severe …
Global change is altering species distributions and thus interactions among organisms. Organisms live in concert with thousands of other species, some beneficial, some …
BACKGROUND Microbial communities—microbiomes—are intricately linked to human health and critical ecosystem services. New technologies allow the rapid characterization of …
Plant roots support complex microbial communities that can influence plant growth, nutrition, and health. While extensive characterizations of the composition and spatial …