The bacterial-fungal energy channel concept challenged by enormous functional versatility of soil protists

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Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with (2017, unknown): “Soil protists are still predominantly considered as being mainly bacterivorous (Bradford, 2016; Geisen, 2016a).”
Distribution patterns of soil microbial eukaryotes suggests widespread algivory by phagotrophic protists as an alternative pathway for nutrient cycling (2017, unknown): “These studies also revealed that many protists feed on eukaryotes, thus questioning the long-held view that soil phagotrophs fed mainly on bacteria (i.e. soil microbial loop) (Dumack et al., 2016a,b; Geisen et al., 2015b, 2016; Geisen, 2016).”
Below‐ground connections underlying above‐ground food production: a framework for optimising ecological connections in the rhizosphere (2017, background): “nature of soil food web interactions are currently under debate (Ballhausen & de Boer 214 2016; Geisen 2016), existing food web models have successfully predicted C and N 215 fluxes in natural and agricultural systems (De Ruiter et al.”