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Forest Soil Bacteria: Diversity, Involvement in Ecosystem Processes, and Response to Global Change.
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- Unboxing the black box-one step forward to understand the soil microbiome: A systematic review.Microbial ecology · 2023Pooled it
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- Exploring sagebrush leaf microbial metagenomes from deep, host-derived sequencing.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Forest Succession Shapes Soil microbial Communities through Region-specific Edaphic Filters in Tropical and Subtropical Forests.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Global patterns and drivers of soil microbial nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Bacteria-soil-plant linkages underlie the mosaic structure of the soil bacterial communities in near-natural stands of Białowieża Primeval Forest.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Tree diversity shapes soil bacterial community structure under low abiotic heterogeneity in the Atlantic forest.Archives of microbiology · 2026Article
- Cost-effective plant-based medium for enhanced spore production of B. amyloliquefaciens CN12 for biofertilizer application.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Linkages between soil-specific enzyme activity and microbial necromass carbon: implications for ecological restoration.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
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- Editorial: Forest soil microbiome and their interactions with the plants.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Warming outweighs nitrogen deposition in shaping rhizosphere microbial structure involved in carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling inFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Pyrochar versus hydrochar: contrasting modulation of soil bacterial communities under severe nitrate-dominated acid rain stress in aFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Rapid changes in major nutrients and fungal community during early decomposition ofFrontiers in fungal biology · 2026Article
- Soil microbiome analysis of a northeastern deciduous forest in SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, New York.microPublication biology · 2026Article
- Integrated study of rhizosphere microbiome and metabolome profiles across tropical plantations in the Western Ghat regions of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals Distinct Soil Metabolic Profiles Across Land Management Practices.Metabolites · 2025Article
- Biofilm as a Key Element in the Bacterial Pathogenesis of Forest Trees: A Review of Mechanisms and Ecological Implications.Microorganisms · 2025Review
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Abstract
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 concerning their ecology, especially for temperate and boreal forests. Although most studies have focused on fungi, forest soil bacteria also play important roles in this environment. In forest soils, bacteria inhabit multiple habitats with specific properties, including bulk soil, rhizosphere, litter, and deadwood habitats, where their communities are shaped by nutrient availability and biotic interactions. Bacteria contribute to a range of essential soil processes involved in the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. They take part in the decomposition of dead plant biomass and are highly important for the decomposition of dead fungal mycelia. In rhizospheres of forest trees, bacteria interact with plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi as commensalists or mycorrhiza helpers. Bacteria also mediate multiple critical steps in the nitrogen cycle, including N fixation. Bacterial communities in forest soils respond to the effects of global change, such as climate warming, increased levels of carbon dioxide, or anthropogenic nitrogen deposition. This response, however, often reflects the specificities of each studied forest ecosystem, and it is still impossible to fully incorporate bacteria into predictive models. The understanding of bacterial ecology in forest soils has advanced dramatically in recent years, but it is still incomplete. The exact extent of the contribution of bacteria to forest ecosystem processes will be recognized only in the future, when the activities of all soil community members are studied simultaneously.
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