ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2012
Microbial diversity affects self-organization of the soil-microbe system with consequences for function.
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- Disturbance by soil mixing decreases microbial richness and supports homogenizing community assembly processes.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2022Article
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- Efficacy of rhizobacterial exopolysaccharides in improving plant growth, physiology, and soil properties.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021Article
- Soil Microbial Indicators within Rotations and Tillage Systems.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- The effects of long-term fertilizations on soil hydraulic properties vary with scales.Journal of hydrology · 2021Article
- Microbial Community Characteristics Largely Unaffected by X-Ray Computed Tomography of Sediment Cores.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Microbial Shifts Following Five Years of Cover Cropping and Tillage Practices in Fertile Agroecosystems.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- Soil as an extended composite phenotype of the microbial metagenome.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Preliminary evidences of the presence of extracellular DNA single stranded forms in soil.PloS one · 2020Article
- Soil Aggregate Microbial Communities: Towards Understanding Microbiome Interactions at Biologically Relevant Scales.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2019Review
- Cover crop species have contrasting influence upon soil structural genesis and microbial community phenotype.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The impact of carbon addition on the organisation of rhizosheath of chickpea.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Effects of cropping systems upon the three-dimensional architecture of soil systems are modulated by texture.Geoderma · 2018Article
- The emergent rhizosphere: imaging the development of the porous architecture at the root-soil interface.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Soils are complex ecosystems and the pore-scale physical structure regulates key processes that support terrestrial life. These include maintaining an appropriate mixture of air and water in soil, nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration. There is evidence that this structure is not random, although the organizing mechanism is not known. Using X-ray microtomography and controlled microcosms, we provide evidence that organization of pore-scale structure arises spontaneously out of the interaction between microbial activity, particle aggregation and resource flows in soil. A simple computational model shows that these interactions give rise to self-organization involving both physical particles and microbes that gives soil unique material properties. The consequence of self-organization for the functioning of soil is determined using lattice Boltzmann simulation of fluid flow through the observed structures, and predicts that the resultant micro-structural changes can significantly increase hydraulic conductivity. Manipulation of the diversity of the microbial community reveals a link between the measured change in micro-porosity and the ratio of fungal to bacterial biomass. We suggest that this behaviour may play an important role in the way that soil responds to management and climatic change, but that this capacity for self-organization has limits.
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