Keystone taxa as drivers of microbiome structure and functioning

S Banerjee, K Schlaeppi… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Microorganisms have a pivotal role in the functioning of ecosystems. Recent studies have
shown that microbial communities harbour keystone taxa, which drive community …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding ecological assessment by integrating microorganisms into routine freshwater biomonitoring

M Sagova-Mareckova, J Boenigk, A Bouchez… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Bioindication has become an indispensable part of water quality monitoring in most
countries of the world, with the presence and abundance of bioindicator taxa, mostly …

Co‐occurrence is not evidence of ecological interactions

FG Blanchet, K Cazelles, D Gravel - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a rich amount of information in co‐occurrence (presence–absence) data that could
be used to understand community assembly. This proposition first envisioned by Forbes …

Reduced microbial stability in the active layer is associated with carbon loss under alpine permafrost degradation

MH Wu, SY Chen, JW Chen, K Xue… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Permafrost degradation may induce soil carbon (C) loss, critical for global C cycling, and be
mediated by microbes. Despite larger C stored within the active layer of permafrost regions …

Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China

S Jiao, Y Yang, Y Xu, J Zhang, Y Lu - The ISME Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Revealing the linkages between community assembly and species coexistence, which is
crucial for the understanding of ecosystem diversity and functioning, is a fundamental but …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological stability of microbial communities in Lake Donghu regulated by keystone taxa

S Liu, H Yu, Y Yu, J Huang, Z Zhou, J Zeng, P Chen… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seasonal variations of environmental factors generally result in considerable changes in
microbiomes, yet we still lack a clear understanding of how microbial communities maintain …

Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

FT de Vries, RI Griffiths, M Bailey, H Craig… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Soil microbial communities play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning, but it is unknown
how co-occurrence networks within these communities respond to disturbances such as …

A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity

LR Thompson, JG Sanders, D McDonald, A Amir… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Our growing awareness of the microbial world's importance and diversity contrasts starkly
with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA …

How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software

O Ovaskainen, G Tikhonov, A Norberg… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Community ecology aims to understand what factors determine the assembly and dynamics
of species assemblages at different spatiotemporal scales. To facilitate the integration …

Important ecophysiological roles of non-dominant Actinobacteria in plant residue decomposition, especially in less fertile soils

Y Bao, J Dolfing, Z Guo, R Chen, M Wu, Z Li, X Lin… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Microbial-driven decomposition of plant residues is integral to carbon
sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems. Actinobacteria, one of the most widely distributed …