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Soil Microbial Biogeography in a Changing World: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives.

Haiyan Chu, Gui-Feng Gao, Yuying Ma, Kunkun Fan, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

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Review in mSystems, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Haiyan ChuState Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China hychu@issas.ac.cn m.delgadobaquerizo@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9004-8750
Gui-Feng GaoState Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Yuying MaState Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Kunkun FanState Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Manuel Delgado-BaquerizoDepartamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain hychu@issas.ac.cn m.delgadobaquerizo@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil microbial communities are fundamental to maintaining key soil processes associated with litter decomposition, nutrient cycling, and plant productivity and are thus integral to human well-being. Recent technological advances have exponentially increased our knowledge concerning the global ecological distributions of microbial communities across space and time and have provided evidence for their contribution to ecosystem functions. However, major knowledge gaps in soil biogeography remain to be addressed over the coming years as technology and research questions continue to evolve. In this minireview, we state recent advances and future directions in the study of soil microbial biogeography and discuss the need for a clearer concept of microbial species, projections of soil microbial distributions toward future global change scenarios, and the importance of embracing culture and isolation approaches to determine microbial functional profiles. This knowledge will be critical to better predict ecosystem functions in a changing world.

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future perspectivesrecent advancessoil microbial biogeography

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PMID32317392
PMCPMC7174637

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