Global patterns in belowground communities.

By Noah Fierer, M. Strickland, D. Liptzin, M. Bradford, C. Cleveland. Ecology Letters, 2009

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Influence of plant species and soil conditions on plant–soil feedback in mixed grassland communities (2010, result): “…status, play as drivers of soil community abundance and structure (Bardgett 2005) This is in agreement with the work of Fierer & Jackson (2006) and Fierer et al. (2009), who found that diversity and richness of soil bacterial communities differed by ecosystem type, and that these differences were…”
The under-recognized dominance of Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial communities (2011, background): “Because temperate grasslands typically harbor relatively high levels of nematode biomass (Fierer et al., 2009), this may, in part, explain why Verrucomicrobia appear to be so abundant in this biome (Janssen, 2006).”
Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities. (2012, background): “Although microbial biomass has been shown to increase with soil organic C content across biomes (Fierer et al. 2009), and bacterial community composition to be influenced by the amount and composition of soil organic matter at the ecosystem and field scale (Millard & Singh 2010), we provide the firs”
Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality (2014, background): “This vast and hidden diversity contributes to the total terrestrial biomass and is intimately linked to above-ground biodiversity (9, 10).”
The Effect of Tillage System and Crop Rotation on Soil Microbial Diversity and Composition in a Subtropical Acrisol (2012, background): “The crop rotation composition and the tillage management, together, determine the soil C:N ratio, which has significant effect on microbial composition [17], crop residue decomposition, and crop nutrient cycling.”
Seasonal controls on grassland microbial biogeography: Are they governed by plants, abiotic properties or both? (2014, background): “Our results confirm the findings of others who have looked at soil microbial biogeography in croplands and grasslands at broader scales (Ettema and Wardle, 2002; Fierer and Jackson, 2006; Martiny et al., 2006; Lauber et al., 2008; Fierer et al., 2009; Ranjard et al., 2010; Dequiedt et al., 2011; Gri”
Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome (2017, background): “Soil microbial biomass rivals the aboveground biomass of plants or animals, with soil often containing >1,000 kg of microbial biomass carbon per hectare 2,3 .”
Global drivers and patterns of microbial abundance in soil (2013, methodology): “And, in spite of this discrepancy in scale, our validation showed similar patterns to the observed SIR as reported earlier for local datasets (Anderson & Joergensen, 1997; Fierer et al., 2003, 2009).”
Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency (2011, background): “For example, Acidobacteria can make up more than 50% of the microbial community (Fierer et al., 2009; Jones et al., 2009).”
Ice nucleation activity in the widespread soil fungus Mortierella alpina (2015, neutral): “In soil, the typical decomposer community, which accounts for half a percent to a few percent of the soil organic matter (Wardle, 1992; Zak et al., 1994; Fierer et al., 2009), is often dominated by fungi; estimates of the average proportions of fungi in the total microbial biomass range from 35–75 %”
Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes (2012, result): “However, the ratio of fungal:bacterial rRNA reads did vary across soils in this study, with temperate and boreal forests having the highest fungal:bacterial ratios (Table S3), a pattern similar to that noted previously (23).”
Patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in Tibetan alpine and global terrestrial ecosystems (2016, background): “…prediction of microbial communities than other predictors, as it provides an integrated measure of biotic and abiotic factors that control the microbial biomass pool size (Fierer et al., 2009); that is, SOC supports the growth of soil microorganisms (Ingham et al., 1985; Fierer et al., 2009).”
Climate Change, Aboveground-Belowground Interactions, and Species' Range Shifts (2012, background): “Conclusions on Species’ Range Shifts”