Do we need to understand microbial communities to predict ecosystem function? A comparison of statistical models of nitrogen cycling processes

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Functional guild classification predicts the enzymatic role of fungi in litter and soil biogeochemistry (2015, background): “, 2011) and can improve predictions of soil N cycles in the field (Graham et al., 2014).”
Soil fertility is associated with fungal and bacterial richness, whereas pH is associated with community composition in polar soil microbial communities (2014, background): “Recent work has suggested that biotic factors do not significantly contribute when considering edaphic controls on microbial communities (Graham et al., 2014) and thus, more work is needed to understand if fungi/bacterial interactions modulate edaphic influences on communities.”
Relative importance of soil properties and microbial community for soil functionality: insights from a microbial swap experiment (2016, background): “…ecosystem services such as climate regulation, food production and waste decomposition (Schlesinger & Bernhardt 2013) and are commonly used in the current literature (Strickland et al. 2009; Ayers et al. 2009; Philippot et al. 2013; Cleveland et al. 2014; Graham et al. 2014; Powell et al. 2015).”