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Long-term mowing reinforces connections between soil microbial and plant communities in a temperate steppe
PurposeMowing is an important management practice in the Inner Mongolia grassland and can significantly regulate plant and soil microbial...
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The occurrence and ecology of microbial chain elongation of carboxylates in soils
Chain elongation is a growth-dependent anaerobic metabolism that combines acetate and ethanol into butyrate, hexanoate, and octanoate. While the...
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Microbial Metagenomics Developments for Environmental and Public Health Monitoring
Microbial metagenomics has transformed surveillance in the fields of community health and the environment by providing previously unobtainable...
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Stream Microbial Ecology
Microbes include heterotrophs, especially bacteria and fungi that obtain energy from detrital material as well as from organic compounds in the...
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Emerging Microbial Technologies: Mitigating Challenges to Humans
This book chapter discusses the applications of emerging microbial technologies in mitigating challenges in agriculture, environment, and health...
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Importance of Microbial Inoculants in Maintaining Plant Growth and Productivity
Advanced plant rearing operations and reasonable developments are required to boost crop production and support better innovative techniques. To...
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Tree diversity and soil chemical properties drive the linkages between soil microbial community and ecosystem functioning
Microbial respiration is critical for soil carbon balance and ecosystem functioning. Previous studies suggest that plant diversity influences soil...
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Depth dependence of climatic controls on soil microbial community activity and composition
Subsoil microbiomes play important roles in soil carbon and nutrient cycling, yet our understanding of the controls on subsoil microbial communities...
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Microbial and chemical fertilizers for restoring degraded alpine grassland
On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the restoration of natural grasslands is an urgent task, but finding the appropriate green restoration approach still...
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Organic amendments enhance transpiration efficiency of corn plants via changes in soil microbial abundance and leaf hormones
Background and AimsThe use of organic amendments improves soil functioning and thus crop productivity. Our previous studies have shown that the...
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The soil plastisphere
Understanding the effects of plastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystems is a priority in environmental research. A central aspect of this suite of...
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Diversified crop rotation improves continuous monocrop** eggplant production by altering the soil microbial community and biochemical properties
Background and aimsVegetable production under the plastic tunnel is a steadily growing sector worldwide, but this type of cultivation threatens...
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Omics-based microbiome analysis in microbial ecology: from sequences to information
Microbial ecology is the study of microorganisms present in nature. It particularly focuses on microbial interactions with any biota and with...
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Microbial features of mature and abandoned soils in refractory clay deposits
Processes of soil restoration in anthropogenically disturbed soils is an urgent topic in modern ecology and nature management. Being mediator between...
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Modeling Microbial Community Networks: Methods and Tools for Studying Microbial Interactions
Microbial interactions function as a fundamental unit in complex ecosystems. By characterizing the type of interaction (positive, negative, neutral)...
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Ecological interactions among microbial functional guilds in the plant-soil system and implications for ecosystem function
BackgroundSoils harbour a remarkable diversity of interacting fungi, bacteria, and other microbes: together these perform a wide variety of...
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Use Cases and Future Aspects of Intelligent Techniques in Microbial Data Analysis
Microbes, including bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses, are fundamental to our ecosystems, health, and industries. Microbial data analysis has...
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Microbial response of distinct soil types to land-use intensification at a South-Indian rural-urban interface
AimsRural-urban dynamics are leading to agricultural intensification practices, which affect microbial ecosystem functions in a soil-specific way....
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Organic Fertilizers Shape Soil Microbial Communities and Increase Soil Amino Acid Metabolites Content in a Blueberry Orchard
The decline in soil nutrients is becoming a major concern of soil degradation. The possibility of using organic waste as a soil additive to increase...
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Role of Microbial Ecology to Manage Remediation and Degradation Processes in the Environment
Bioremediation of polluted sites is the main consideration in environmental biotechnology. Many different environmental issues have confronted the...