ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2022
Advances in Defining Ecosystem Functions of the Terrestrial Subsurface Biosphere.
Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Ecological Processes Underpinning Microbial Variability in Archean Granitoids Beneath the Deccan Traps: Evidence From Deep Drilling in Koyna, India.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Article
- Biotransformation Processes Relevant to Geologic Carbon Sequestration: Potential Implications for Environmental Fate.Environmental science & technology · 2026Review
- Lipid biomarkers reveal dominance of aerobic methanotrophy in a continental serpentinizing system.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Site-specific incubations reveal biofilm diversity and functional adaptations in deep, ancient desert aquifers.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Metabolic Potential and Microbial Diversity of Late Archean to Early Proterozoic Ocean Analog Hot Springs of Japan.Microbes and environments · 2025Article
- A global deep terrestrial biosphere core microbiome.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Radiolytic support for oxidative metabolism in an ancient subsurface brine system.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Dark biosphere: Just at the very tip of the iceberg.Environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Subsurface biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen in the actively serpentinizing Samail Ophiolite, Oman.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The subsurface is one of the last remaining 'uncharted territories' of Earth and is now accepted as a biosphere in its own right, at least as critical to Earth systems as the surface biosphere. The terrestrial deep biosphere is connected through a thin veneer of Earth's crust to the surface biosphere, and many subsurface biosphere ecosystems are impacted by surface topography, climate, and near surface groundwater movement and represent a transition zone (at least ephemerally). Delving below this transition zone, we can examine how microbial metabolic functions define a deep terrestrial subsurface. This review provides a survey of the most recent advances in discovering the functional and genomic diversity of the terrestrial subsurface biosphere, how microbes interact with minerals and obtain energy and carbon in the subsurface, and considers adaptations to the presented environmental extremes. We highlight the deepest subsurface studies in deep mines, deep laboratories, and boreholes in crystalline and altered host rock lithologies, with a focus on advances in understanding ecosystem functions in a holistic manner.
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