Forest microbiome: diversity, complexity and dynamics.

By Petr Baldrian. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2016

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Globally, forests represent highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks where soil organic matter is formed from residuals after biomass decomposition as well as from rhizodeposited carbon. Forests exhibit a high level of spatial heterogeneity and the importance of trees, the dominant primary producers, for their structure and functioning. Fungi, bacteria and archaea inhabit various forest habitats: foliage, the wood of living trees, the bark surface, ground vegetation, roots and the rhizosphere, litter, soil, deadwood, rock surfaces, invertebrates, wetlands or the atmosphere, each of which has its own specific features, such as nutrient availability or temporal dynamicy and specific drivers that affect microbial abundance, the level of dominance of bacteria or fungi as well as the composition of their communities. However, several microorganisms, and in particular fungi, inhabit or even connect multiple habitats, and most ecosystem processes affect multiple habitats. Forests are dynamic on a broad temporal scale with processes ranging from short-term events over seasonal ecosystem dynamics to long-term stand development after disturbances such as fires or insect outbreaks. The understanding of these processes can be only achieved by the exploration of the complex 'ecosystem microbiome' and its functioning using focused, integrative microbiological and ecological research performed across multiple habitats.

Subfields: Plant Science

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Linkage between tree species richness and soil microbial diversity improves phosphorus bioavailability (2019, background): “…(Battini, Grønlund, Agnolucci, Giovannetti, & Jakobsen, 2017) fungi are widely considered to be the main factor in improving P uptake by plants (Baldrian, 2017; Faucon et al., 2015), and saprotrophic (SAP) fungi play a crucial role in litter decomposition and the mobilisation of organic P…”
Soil microbiome: a key player for conservation of soil health under changing climate (2019, neutral): “2016; Baldrian 2017).”
Forest Soil Bacteria: Diversity, Involvement in Ecosystem Processes, and Response to Global Change (2017, background): “This traditional emphasis on fungi, however, is slowly shifting with an increasing appreciation of the role of bacteria as the other major component of forest ecosystems (19).”
Tree species mixing affects soil microbial functioning indirectly via root and litter traits and soil parameters in European forests (2021, background): “, & Baldrian, P. (2017). Forest Soil Bacteria: Diversity, 814 involvement in ecosystem processes, and response to global change.”
Forest Tree Microbiomes and Associated Fungal Endophytes: Functional Roles and Impact on Forest Health (2019, background): “even in the case of the most common species of temperate and boreal forests [6].”