The soil microbial community structure is critical to the cycling of carbon and nitrogen in forest soils. As afforestation practices increasingly promote different functional traits of tree species, it has become critical to understand how they influ...
Microcystin (MC) contamination of surface waters threatens ecosystems and public health. Nature-based solutions such as Multi-Soil-Layering (MSL) systems have been used for MC remediation. However, the biological mechanisms controlling MC degradation...
Microbial functional traits play a central role in regulating carbon mineralization efficiency (CME) in peatlands, yet how they respond to concurrent warming and atmospheric nitrogen deposition remains unclear. In this study, peat soils from three ve...
The intensive use of chemical fertilizers in China to maintain high crop yields has led to significant environmental degradation and destabilized crop production. Returning straw to soil presents a potential alternative to reduce chemical fertilizer...
Water and nitrogen sources have always been the primary limiting factors for vegetation growth in arid and semi-arid regions and play an important role in the physiological ecology of vegetation. In this work, we studied the effects of water deficit...
The symbiotic relationship between cover crops and soil microorganisms is closely linked to nutrient cycling and crop growth within agroecosystems. However, how cover crops with different root functional traits influence soil microbial communities, s...
Vegetation restoration is accompanied by changes in plant functional traits, soil properties, and microbial communities, yet how these components covary along long-term restoration chronosequences remains poorly understood. We investigated Caragana m...
Current agricultural practices face numerous challenges, including declining soil fertility and heavy reliance on chemical inputs. Rhizosphere microbial metabolites have emerged as promising agents for enhancing crop health and yield in a sustainable...
The rhizosphere is a hot spot of soil microbial activity and is largely fed by root exudation. The carbon (C) exudation flux, coupled with plant growth, is considered a strategy of plants to facilitate nutrient uptake. C exudation is accompanied by a...
The mixing of tree species influences soil microbial communities and ecosystem functioning, yet the underlying mechanisms remain inadequately understood. This study aimed to elucidate how different tree species mixtures regulate soil microbial commun...
The composition and diversity of rhizosphere microbial communities may be due to root–soil–microbial interactions. The fine root functional traits and rhizosphere soil environmental factors of 13 representative plants in the Bawangling tr...
Mixing and matching N2-fixing leguminous species is a crucial strategy to enhance quality and efficiency in sustainable forestry. Tree leaves and rhizosphere are primary sites for matter and energy exchange, functioning as key assimilation organs tha...
The effects of climate change-induced ice melting on the microbial communities in different glacial-fed aquatic systems have been reported, but seasonal dynamics remain poorly investigated. In this study, the structural and functional traits of the a...
Arabica coffee, one of the most valuable crop commodities, harbors diverse microbial communities with unique genetic and functional traits that influence bean safety and final coffee quality. In Ecuador, coffee production faces challenges due to the...
Although an increasing amount of attention is being paid to how human activities alter plant communities, little is known about the consequences of these changes on species’ assemblages and biodiversity patterns. Using three forest types (a Pin...
We propose the trait-based method for quantifying the activity of functional groups in the human gut microbiome based on metatranscriptomic data. It allows one to assess structural changes in the microbial community comprised of the following functio...
The role of rhizosphere bacteria in facilitating plant invasion is increasingly acknowledged, yet the influence of specific microbial functional traits remains insufficiently understood. This study addresses this gap by isolating two bacterial strain...
Desert ecosystems pose extreme challenges to plant survival. This study explores the adaptive strategies of two xerophytic halophytes, Alhagi sparsifolia and Nitraria roborowskii, in Xinjiang’s Ebinur Lake wetland, focusing on their plant&ndash...
Background: The Songnen Plain in China contains soda saline–alkaline soil, wherein salinity and alkalinity severely constrain crop productivity. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a forage legume that has adapted to moderate saline–alkaline...
Constructed wetlands (CWs) are widely implemented as nature-based solutions for delivering essential ecosystem services such as water purification, carbon sequestration, and habitat provision. However, biodiversity monitoring within CWs remains limit...
Shrub encroachment in alpine grasslands alters soil biogeochemical processes, but reported soil responses remain inconsistent and conflicting among studies. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate ten physical and chemical alon...
Legumes provide multiple ecosystem services in agricultural systems. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the influence of different legumes through C rhizodeposition on the dynamics of C, N and P in soil and on microbial communities’ resour...
Increasing wildfire severity under climate change may alter the trajectory of belowground recovery in alpine forests, yet its long-term effects on soil microbial communities remain poorly understood. Here, we examined soil physicochemical properties...
Daqu is a key starter used in Baijiu production, and its microbial composition and associated metabolic functions play critical roles in fermentation performance and flavor development. This work aimed to reveal how Daqu-making temperature regulates...
Fire rapidly reshapes soil environments, yet direct experimental evidence of how soil microorganisms respond through both functional trait adjustment and spatial redistribution remains limited. Here, we used nematode-trapping fungi (NTF) as a model s...
Plants and microbes are the primary drivers in affecting the formation and accrual of soil organic carbon (SOC) for natural ecosystems. However, experimental evidence elucidating their underlying mechanisms for SOC accumulation remains elusive. Here,...
Periphytic ciliate communities of riverine floodplains have hardly been studied, although they play an important role in aquatic food webs and contribute to the overall ecosystem functioning. In this study we analyzed the taxonomic and functional com...
Grassland ecosystems play a key role in global carbon and nutrient cycling, yet their productivity is increasingly affected by changing climate, land use, and nutrient inputs. Recent studies have identified plant–microbe interactions as a cruci...
Carbon (C) is crucial for nutrient cycling and the assembly of microbial populations in the soil. However, it is still unclear how the C-source utilization characteristics of microbes in distinct types of soils respond to changes in soil phosphorus (...
Rubber tree plantations (Hevea brasiliensis) are expanding into the tropical regions of southwest China to ensure production to meet the growing demand for latex. The effects of long-term plantations on soil carbon processes are still unclear. Also,...
Vegetation restoration is an effective measure to improve soil carbon storage in rocky desertification areas. However, the underlying mechanisms driving differences in soil carbon storage among different vegetation types remain unclear. In this study...
Biodiversity and functional traits are increasingly recognized as pivotal factors in regulating ecosystem functioning and stability. However, the patterns and processes of multidimensional biodiversity and functional traits along environmental gradie...
Microorganisms encode proteins that function in the transformations of useful and harmful nitrogenous compounds in the global nitrogen cycle. The major transformations in the nitrogen cycle are nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification, anaer...
Background: Feather pecking is a well-known problem in layer flocks that causes animal welfare restrictions and contributes to economic losses. Birds’ gut microbiota has been linked to feather pecking. This study aims to characterize the microbial co...
Plant attributes have direct and indirect effects on soil microbes via plant inputs and plant-mediated soil changes. However, whether plant taxonomic and functional diversities can explain the soil microbial diversity of restored forest ecosystems re...
Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities (DEMC) offers a promising approach to enhance the functional attributes of microbial consortia in fermented foods by mimicking natural selection processes. This review details the application of DEMC in fer...
In plateau wetlands, the interactions of herbaceous roots with ectorhizosphere soil microorganisms represent an important way to realize their ecological functions. Global change-induced aridification of plateau wetlands has altered long-established...
The adaptation to climatic variability and spatiotemporal distinctions in floristic and microbial assembly is important in forest ecology, especially in the context of biological diversity and functional traits. We investigated climatic variables, pl...
The growing diversity of food fermentation systems has intensified interest in non-Saccharomyces yeasts due to their broad metabolic capabilities and technological potential. However, current understanding of yeast functionality remains fragmented an...
Portuguese Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) cheeses from Azeitão and Nisa harbor unique autochthonous microbial communities integral to their terroir, sensory identity, and authenticity. Rediscovering and preserving this microbial heritag...
Plants and the microorganisms living on their surfaces are an inseparable community that interacts with plant functional traits and influences plant growth, but the differences in microorganisms between plant organs and their relationship with plant...
Microbial communities inhabiting natural and anthropogenically impacted environments are exposed to diverse abiotic stressors that can influence the distribution of functional traits. However, distinguishing the processes underlying phenotypic patter...
The relation and interaction of rhizosphere microbial communities with local environmental factors and root traits is currently a vibrant research hotspot. Yet little is known about how the morphological and functional properties of roots in steppe p...
Mangrove ecosystems are increasingly exposed to climate-driven changes, including shifts in tides, freshwater inputs, and coastal flooding, which may affect both native and exotic species. Mangrove ecosystems, including their associated microbiomes,...
Food systems are usually discussed in terms of nutrition, food safety, productivity, sustainability or emissions. Less attention is given to the microbial dimension of the farm-to-fork pathway and to the way food systems shape the dietary substrates,...
Forest type strongly influences soil microbial community composition and associated carbon cycling, yet its influence on microbial functional traits remains poorly understood. In this study, metagenomics sequencing was used to investigate soil microb...
Plant–soil microbe interactions are complex and affected by many factors including soil type, edaphic conditions, plant genotype and phenotype, and developmental stage. The rice rhizosphere microbial community composition of nine recombinant inbred l...
Artificial (technical) snow production is an increasingly common practice in alpine regions, yet little is known about its role in shaping microbial communities at the molecular level. In this study, we combined culture-based methods with high-throug...
Changes in preservation conditions act as an important environmental filter driving shifts in microbial communities. However, the precise identities, functional traits, and ecological mechanisms of the dominant agents driving stage-specific deteriora...
The metabarcoding of prokaryotic and fungal (Ascomycota only) ribosomal DNA was used to describe the microbial communities in soils of a remnant equatorial rainforest, maize–bean intercrop, and sugarcane in western Kenya. Cropping systems influ...
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