ArticleNature ecology & evolution2023
Experimentally determined traits shape bacterial community composition one and five years following wildfire.
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- Fire Limits Soil Microbial Dispersal and Differentially Impacts Bacterial and Fungal Communities.Global change biology · 2025Pooled it
- Adaptation to Climatic Change and Epigenetic Modifications of Soil Microbiome.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Unraveling complexity in climate change effects on beneficial plant-microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Land-use legacies shape soil microbial communities and nutrient cycling functions in rotational shifting cultivation fields of Northern Thailand.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Fire Frequency Driven Increases in Burn Heterogeneity Promote Microbial Beta Diversity: A Test of the Pyrodiversity-Biodiversity Hypothesis.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Central Taxa Are Keystone Microbes During Early Succession.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Wildfire impact on soil microbiome life history traits and roles in ecosystem carbon cycling.ISME communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Wildfires represent major ecological disturbances, burning 2-3% of Earth's terrestrial area each year with sometimes drastic effects above- and belowground. Soil bacteria offer an ideal, yet understudied system within which to explore fundamental principles of fire ecology. To understand how wildfires restructure soil bacterial communities and alter their functioning, we sought to translate aboveground fire ecology to belowground systems by determining which microbial traits are important post-fire and whether changes in bacterial communities affect carbon cycling. We employed an uncommon approach to assigning bacterial traits, by first running three laboratory experiments to directly determine which microbes survive fires, grow quickly post-fire and/or thrive in the post-fire environment, while tracking CO
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