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

TL;DR: In this article , the authors used a space-for-time substitution to investigate the changes in soil microbial diversity and functions across a forest recovery gradient in the tropical montane forests of northern Borneo.

TL;DR: The findings indicated that the chemical properties of the soil and the richness and diversity of rhizosphere bacterial community did not significantly differ across the mancozeb gradients in soil.

TL;DR: Metagenomic analysis reveals that revegetation types significantly impact soil microorganisms' function in carbon and nitrogen metabolism, with Robinia pseudoacacia, Pinus tabuliformis, and Pinus sylvestris promoting soil nutrient levels and enzyme activities in open-cast mining areas.

TL;DR: In this paper , the main interactions between the indigenous soil microflora and the major constituents of the rhizosphere are studied to understand, on the one hand, how microbial biodiversity can improve plant growth and maintain homeostasis of rhizospheric ecosystem, and how the maintenance and enrichment of plant biodiversity can contribute to the conservation of soil microbial diversity.

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.