Microbial modulators of soil carbon storage: integrating genomic and metabolic knowledge for global prediction

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of forest planting on soil respiration, microbial communities, and associated soil properties in alpine grasslands of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, and explored microbial mechanisms of the soil response to afforestation.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors point out that the limitation of factors in laboratory experiments disregards interactions of a broad range of in situ environmental drivers leading to frequent contradictions between laboratory- and field-based studies, which may consequently mislead model development and projections.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used shotgun metagenomic sequencing to quantify the abundance and distribution of gene families involved in soil microbial N and C cycling under three deciduous hardwood tree species: ectomycorrhizal (ECM)-associated Quercus rubra (red oak), ECM-associated Castanea dentata (American chestnut), and arbuscular mycorrhizaal (AM)-associated Prunus serotina (black cherry), and showed that tree species can mediate the abundance of key microbial genes involved in N and (

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a long-term simulated warming experiment to investigate how changes to the plant community within two different environmental contexts affect the responses of soil microorganisms and their respiration to warming.

TL;DR: This work has suggested that several environmental constraints obscure the intrinsic temperature sensitivity of substrate decomposition, causing lower observed ‘apparent’ temperature sensitivity, and these constraints may, themselves, be sensitive to climate.

TL;DR: In this article, a new generation of experiments and soil carbon models were proposed to predict the SOM response to global warming, and they showed that molecular structure alone alone does not control SOM stability.

TL;DR: Survey, experimental, and meta-analytical results suggest that certain bacterial phyla can be differentiated into copiotrophic and oligotrophic categories that correspond to the r- and K-selected categories used to describe the ecological attributes of plants and animals.

TL;DR: Soils collected across a long-term liming experiment were used to investigate the direct influence of pH on the abundance and composition of the two major soil microbial taxa, fungi and bacteria, and both the relative abundance and diversity of bacteria were positively related to pH.