ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2020
Structural and Functional Dynamics of Soil Microbes following Spruce Beetle Infestation.
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- Reforestation Under Climate Change-A Cross-Regional Deadwood Retention Experiment to Develop Multifunctional Forests on Disturbed Norway Spruce Areas.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- From beginning to end: the synecology of tree-killing bark beetles, fungi, and trees.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Bark beetle infestation alters mycobiomes in wood, litter, and soil associated with Norway spruce.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Ground-lying deadwood volume promotes soil beta diversity but not alpha diversity in European temperate forests.Plant and soil · 2025Article
- Infestation by potato tuber moth restructures microbial communities in flue-cured tobacco rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Quantifying the immediate response of the soil microbial community to different grazing intensities on irrigated pastures.Agriculture, ecosystems & environment · 2022Article
- Foliar Herbivory Reduces Rhizosphere Fungal Diversity and Destabilizes the Co-occurrence Network.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
As the range of bark beetles expands into new forests and woodlands, the need to understand their effects on multiple trophic levels becomes increasingly important. To date, much attention has been paid to the aboveground processes affected by bark beetle infestation, with a focus on photoautotrophs and ecosystem level processes. However, indirect effects of bark beetle on belowground processes, especially the structure and function of soil microbiota remains largely a black box. Our study examined the impacts of bark beetle-induced tree mortality on soil microbial community structure and function using high-throughput sequencing of the soil bacterial and fungal communities and measurements of extracellular enzyme activities. The results suggest bark beetle infestation affected edaphic conditions through increased soil water content, pH, electrical conductivity, and carbon/nitrogen ratio and altered bulk and rhizosphere soil microbial community structure and function. Finally, increased enzymatic activity suggests heightened microbial decomposition following bark beetle infestation. With this increase in enzymatic activity, nutrients trapped in organic substrates may become accessible to seedlings and potentially alter the trajectory of forest regeneration. Our results indicate the need for incorporation of microbial processes into ecosystem level models.
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