ReviewNature ecology & evolution2024
Growth rate as a link between microbial diversity and soil biogeochemistry.
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- Soil microbial growth rate, trophic strategy, and the oligotroph-copiotroph continuum.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
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- Microbial growth rates captured using Raman-SIP reveal a highly active subsurface biosphere fueled by serpentinization.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Drought Reduces Formation, but Enhances Persistence, of Mineral-Associated Organic Matter in a Grassland Soil.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Disturbance reshapes functional redundancy and accelerates nitrification in soil nitrifying communities.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- A genomic view of Earth's biomes.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- SIPdb: a stable isotope probing database and analytical dashboard for linking amplicon sequences to microbial activity using reverse ecology.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Relative abundances of bacterial phyla are strong indicators of community-scale microbial growth rates in soil.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Exploring Bacterial Interactions Under the Stress Gradient Hypothesis in Response to Selenium Stress.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Review
- Simulated Climate Change Enhances Microbial Drought Resilience in Ethiopian Croplands but Not Forests.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Codon bias, nucleotide selection, and genome size predict in situ bacterial growth rate and transcription in rewetted soil.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Ecology and functions ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Leveraging genomic information to predict environmental preferences of bacteria.The ISME journal · 2024Review
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Abstract
Measuring the growth rate of a microorganism is a simple yet profound way to quantify its effect on the world. The absolute growth rate of a microbial population reflects rates of resource assimilation, biomass production and element transformation-some of the many ways in which organisms affect Earth's ecosystems and climate. Microbial fitness in the environment depends on the ability to reproduce quickly when conditions are favourable and adopt a survival physiology when conditions worsen, which cells coordinate by adjusting their relative growth rate. At the population level, relative growth rate is a sensitive metric of fitness, linking survival and reproduction to the ecology and evolution of populations. Techniques combining omics and stable isotope probing enable sensitive measurements of the growth rates of microbial assemblages and individual taxa in soil. Microbial ecologists can explore how the growth rates of taxa with known traits and evolutionary histories respond to changes in resource availability, environmental conditions and interactions with other organisms. We anticipate that quantitative and scalable data on the growth rates of soil microorganisms, coupled with measurements of biogeochemical fluxes, will allow scientists to test and refine ecological theory and advance process-based models of carbon flux, nutrient uptake and ecosystem productivity. Measurements of in situ microbial growth rates provide insights into the ecology of populations and can be used to quantitatively link microbial diversity to soil biogeochemistry.
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