Revisiting life strategy concepts in environmental microbial ecology

A Ho, DP Di Lonardo… - FEMS microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Microorganisms are physiologically diverse, possessing disparate genomic features and
mechanisms for adaptation (functional traits), which reflect on their associated life strategies …

Urban soil and human health: a review

G Li, GX Sun, Y Ren, XS Luo… - European Journal of Soil …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid industrialization and urbanization during recent decades are having dramatic effects
on urban soil properties and lead to large discharges of pollutants, which inevitably affect …

Global negative effects of nutrient enrichment on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

X Ma, Q Geng, H Zhang, C Bian, HYH Chen… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite widespread anthropogenic nutrient enrichment, it remains unclear how nutrient
enrichment influences plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) symbiosis and ecosystem …

Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis

R Bobbink, K Hicks, J Galloway… - Ecological …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is a recognized threat to plant diversity in temperate
and northern parts of Europe and North America. This paper assesses evidence from field …

Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

IA Janssens, W Dieleman, S Luyssaert, JA Subke… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
The use of fossil fuels and fertilizers has increased the amount of biologically reactive
nitrogen in the atmosphere over the past century. As a consequence, forests in industrialized …

Soil health and nutrient density: beyond organic vs. conventional farming

DR Montgomery, A Biklé - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Controversy has long surrounded the question of nutritional differences between crops
grown organically or using now-conventional methods, with studies dating back to the 1940s …

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition impacts on the structure and function of forest mycorrhizal communities: a review

EA Lilleskov, TW Kuyper, MI Bidartondo… - Environmental Pollution, 2019 - Elsevier
Humans have dramatically increased atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition globally. At the
coarsest resolution, N deposition is correlated with shifts from ectomycorrhizal (EcM) to …

Resource stoichiometry elucidates the structure and function of arbuscular mycorrhizas across scales

NC Johnson - New Phytologist, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the fact that arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) associations are among the most ancient,
abundant and important symbioses in terrestrial ecosystems, there are currently few unifying …

Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks

RD Bardgett, C Freeman, NJ Ostle - The ISME journal, 2008 - academic.oup.com
There is considerable interest in understanding the biological mechanisms that regulate
carbon exchanges between the land and atmosphere, and how these exchanges respond to …

Variation in plant response to native and exotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

JN Klironomos - Ecology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
High variability in plant‐growth response to the presence of different mycorrhizal fungi can
be a major determinant of local plant species diversity. Multiple species of arbuscular …