Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition.

By M. Strickland, C. Lauber, Noah Fierer, M. Bradford. Ecology, 2009

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Litter quality is in the eye of the beholder: initial decomposition rates as a function of inoculum characteristics (2009, background): “Given the rapid generation times of microbes it seems plausible that microbial community functioning might rapidly converge in the same environment (Strickland et al. 2008).”
Decomposition of Eucalyptus grandis and Acacia mangium leaves and fine roots in tropical conditions did not meet the Home Field Advantage hypothesis (2016, background): “This suggests specialization of the local decomposer community to the characteristics of this litter (Strickland et al., 2009), possibly because the decomposers in the litter environment have specific metabolic capacities (Wickings et al., 2012) and there is transfer from the microbial communities…”
Disentangling the mechanisms underlying functional differences among decomposer communities (2014, methodology): “To evaluate the approaches of the sports model and the decomposition model, we therefore used data from one of our own studies (Strickland et al. 2009a). The experiment had three litters and soils, replicated eight times with a blocked design, and so for the purposes of this paper we considered that”
Consistent effects of nitrogen amendments on soil microbial communities and processes across biomes (2012, background): “Previous work has hypothesized that functional classiﬁcations of the microbial community are appropriate when considering belowground process changes (Fontaine & Barot, 2005; Moorhead & Sinsabaugh, 2006; Strickland et al. , 2009).”
Microbial community composition affects soil organic carbon turnover in mineral soils (2017, background): “In a study with different types of litter substrate, Strickland et al. (2009) found differences in microbial community composition accounting for 20% of the variation in the total C mineralisation.”
Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high‐elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them (2009, background): “…that soil biota associated with particular plant species specialize in decomposing litter produced by that plant species (Bocock et al. 1960; Wardle 2002; Ayres et al. 2009a) and our laboratory experiment, and two other recent studies (Strickland et al. 2009a,b), validate this hypothesis.”
Revisiting the hypothesis that fungal-to-bacterial dominance characterizes turnover of soil organic matter and nutrients (2015, background): “Plant litter of high C quality appears to favor bacterial more than fungal growth, while lower-quality plant litter additions shows the opposite relationship (Rousk and Bååth 2007, Strickland et al. 2009).”
Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil (2013, background): “…2013 The ISME Journal (2013) 7, 1609–1619 & 2013 International Society for Microbial Ecology All rights reserved 1751-7362/13 www.nature.com/ismej with different microbial communities showed that differences in community composition lead to functional dissimilarities (Strickland et al., 2009).”