The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

By Paul G. Falkowski, T. Fenchel, E. Delong. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Molecular Biology

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The microbial aspect of climate change (2016, background): “In fact, these are responsible for the main processes causing greenhouse gas fluxes between soils and the atmosphere (Conrad 1996; Falkowski et al. 2008) and contribute immensely to terrestrial CO2 emissions (Melillo et al. 2002, 2011).”
Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system (2016, background): “These could short-circuit the elemental cycles as they are traditionally conceived 45 (for example, where the most reduced form, for example, S 2 (cid:2) , N 3 (cid:2) , is presumed to be converted to the most oxidized form, S 6 þ , N 5 þ and vice versa).”
The interplay between microbial communities and soil properties (2023, neutral): “The role of soil microorganisms in nutrient availability is well recognized as they are key players in the biogeochemical cycling of many elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium 174 .”
Bacteria rather than Archaea dominate microbial ammonia oxidation in an agricultural soil. (2009, background): “Microbial ammonia oxidation is the first and rate-limiting step of nitrification, a central process in the global nitrogen cycle that sustains life on Earth (Kowalchuk and Stephen, 2001; Falkowski et al., 2008; Gruber and Galloway, 2008).”
Processes on the Young Earth and the Habitats of Early Life (2012, background): “The central change that permitted a closed-nitrogen cycle coincided with the evolution of the nitrogen-fixing enzyme nitrogenase (Falkowski et al. 2008).”
Interactions between Diatoms and Bacteria (2012, background): “they drive oceanic biogeochemical cycles (54), which in turn im-”
Microbial Surface Colonization and Biofilm Development in Marine Environments (2015, background): “The biogeochemical cycling processes of almost all of the environmentally important elements are highly complex and dynamic in the ocean, involving both free-living and surface-associated microbiota as drivers (186, 187).”
Global biogeography of fungal and bacterial biomass carbon in topsoil (2020, neutral): “Although the critical roles of soil microbes in global C and nutrient cycling have been widely recognized (Falkowski et al., 2008; van der Heijden et al., 2008), the research on biogeographic distribution of fungi and bacteria is still in its infancy (Fenchel, 2002; Boer et al.”