ReviewFEMS microbiology reviews2017
Biophysical processes supporting the diversity of microbial life in soil.
Review in FEMS microbiology reviews, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 152 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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152 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Meta-analysis reveals the effects of microbial inoculants on the biomass and diversity of soil microbial communities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Pooled it
- Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2020Pooled it
- Ecological responses of soil bacteria to rapid and slow temperature fluctuations.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2026Article
- Redundancy maintains microbial ecosystem functional potential despite taxonomic shifts between serpentine and nonserpentine soils.Microbial genomics · 2026Article
- Texture and Neonicotinoid Exposure Shape Bacterial Assemblages and Functions in Agricultural Soils: Responses Over Prolonged Exposure.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Article
- Observing the invisible: X-ray CT for plant-microbe interactions.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Environmental formermSystems · 2026Article
- Drought and Warming-Induced Drying Suppress Soil Respiration but Amplify Rewetting-Induced Pulses in a Temperate Pasture.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Soil as a Battlefield and a Reservoir: Linking Soil Components to the Epidemiology of Soilborne Plant Diseases.Microbial ecology · 2026Review
- Influence of Environment and Rootstock On the Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities in Four Vineyards of the Douro Demarcated Region.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Understanding time-growth rate relationship for slow-growing microbial cells in retentostat culturing systems.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Incomplete denitrifying bacteria drive N2O fluxes in ancient Siberian permafrost microcosms.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
- Tick-vectored mobilization of antibiotic resistance genes: transboundary dissemination across wildlife-livestock-vector-environment interfaces.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Article
- Impacts of drought and manure fertilization on soil and radish resistomes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Transcriptional and metabolic stasis define desiccation-induced dormancy in the soil bacteriummSystems · 2026Article
- Bacterial necromass recycling promotes diversity maintenance in bacterial communities via resource partitioning.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- From death comes diversity.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Semi-Arid Wetlands Is Jointly Driven by Soil Environmental Factors and Microorganisms.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Elevated microbial network complexity and enriched methanogens contribute to higher methanogenic potential in hollows than in hummocks in alpine meadows.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Antibiotic resistance dissemination in soil ecosystems: deep understanding for effective management and global health protection.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2026Review
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Abstract
Soil, the living terrestrial skin of the Earth, plays a central role in supporting life and is home to an unimaginable diversity of microorganisms. This review explores key drivers for microbial life in soils under different climates and land-use practices at scales ranging from soil pores to landscapes. We delineate special features of soil as a microbial habitat (focusing on bacteria) and the consequences for microbial communities. This review covers recent modeling advances that link soil physical processes with microbial life (termed biophysical processes). Readers are introduced to concepts governing water organization in soil pores and associated transport properties and microbial dispersion ranges often determined by the spatial organization of a highly dynamic soil aqueous phase. The narrow hydrological windows of wetting and aqueous phase connectedness are crucial for resource distribution and longer range transport of microorganisms. Feedbacks between microbial activity and their immediate environment are responsible for emergence and stabilization of soil structure-the scaffolding for soil ecological functioning. We synthesize insights from historical and contemporary studies to provide an outlook for the challenges and opportunities for developing a quantitative ecological framework to delineate and predict the microbial component of soil functioning.
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