ArticleNature microbiology2022
Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function.
Article in Nature microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities.Global change biology · 2025Pooled it
- Fire Severity Drives Long-Term Divergence of Soil Microbial Communities and Functional Traits in an Alpine Forest.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- An integrative framework for early estimation of global crop yields demonstrated under large-scale disruptions.Nature food · 2026Article
- Structure-guided identification of denitrification inhibitors to mitigate agricultural NNature communications · 2026Article
- High-quality draft genome sequence ofMicrobiology resource announcements · 2026Article
- Article
- Continental-scale integration of soil metagenomes and organic matter chemistry reveals ubiquitous microbial capacity for chemically-recalcitrant carbon decomposition.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Fungal-Associated Endotypes as a Treatable Trait in Bronchiectasis.Pulmonary therapy · 2026Review
- Article
- Disturbance reshapes functional redundancy and accelerates nitrification in soil nitrifying communities.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Gene duplication, horizontal gene transfer, and trait trade-offs drive evolution of postfire resource acquisition in pyrophilous fungi.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Metagenomic profiling reveals that divergent fire-adaptive strategies drive distinct fungal succession in pine litter decomposition.IMA fungus · 2026Article
- Article
- Shaped by Fire: Unravelling the Impact of Fire on Lizard Gut Microbiome.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Unraveling complexity in climate change effects on beneficial plant-microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Time-series RNA metabarcoding of the activemSystems · 2025Article
- Evidence for Trace Gas Metabolism and Widespread Antibiotic Synthesis in an Abiotically Driven, Antarctic Soil Ecosystem.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- A genomic perspective on fungal diversity and evolution.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025Review
- Prescribed Burning Enhances the Stability of Soil Bacterial Co-Occurrence Networks inMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- Global biogeography of airborne viruses in public transit systems and their host interactions.Microbiome · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
15 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Forest soil microbiomes have crucial roles in carbon storage, biogeochemical cycling and rhizosphere processes. Wildfire season length, and the frequency and size of severe fires have increased owing to climate change. Fires affect ecosystem recovery and modify soil microbiomes and microbially mediated biogeochemical processes. To study wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiomes, we characterized functional shifts in the soil microbiota (bacteria, fungi and viruses) across burn severity gradients (low, moderate and high severity) 1 yr post fire in coniferous forests in Colorado and Wyoming, USA. We found severity-dependent increases of Actinobacteria encoding genes for heat resistance, fast growth, and pyrogenic carbon utilization that might enhance post-fire survival. We report that increased burn severity led to the loss of ectomycorrhizal fungi and less tolerant microbial taxa. Viruses remained active in post-fire soils and probably influenced carbon cycling and biogeochemistry via turnover of biomass and ecosystem-relevant auxiliary metabolic genes. Our genome-resolved analyses link post-fire soil microbial taxonomy to functions and reveal the complexity of post-fire soil microbiome activity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.