Biological Diversity and Function in Soils: Microbial community composition and soil nitrogen cycling: is there really a connection?

By J. Schimel, Jennifer N. Bennett, Noah Fierer. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Soil Science

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Soil health in agricultural systems (2008, background): “…of carbon substrate is normally the primary limiting 690 M. G. Kibblewhite et al. Soil health in agricultural systems factor on microbial activity in soils, this is not necessarily the case, and there is accumulating evidence that soil microbes may frequently be N limited (Schimel et al. 2005).”
Erratum to The chemical and functional characterization of soil N and its biotic components (2009, background): “…soil biodiversity (Bardgett et al., 2005) and the role of scale and soil particle size on soil processes (Lavelle et al., 2004; Standing et al., 2007) are being examined in an increasing number of ecosystems (Sessitch et al., 2001; Schimel et al., 2005; Standing et al., 2007; Manzoni et al., 2008).”
Losses in microbial functional diversity reduce the rate of key soil processes (2019, background): “…to be highly sensitive to changes in diversity 139 because they require a specific physiological pathwy and/or are carried out by a small group 140 of species possessing specialized functional genes (Schimel et al., 2005; Bodelier, 2011; 141 Philippot et al., 2013; Delgado-Baquerizo et al., 2016a).”
Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil (2012, background): “Most microorganisms in soil are aerobic heterotrophs involved in the “broad” or “aggregate” processes (sensu; Schimel et al., 2005); these are the processes that are carried out by a wide range of organisms or that we measure as a single process but are actually the sum of multiple distinct…”
Microbial richness and composition independently drive soil multifunctionality (2017, background): “This result further supports the notion that complex processes such as organic matter decomposition are favored by the existence of a diverse collection of microbes all contributing to the overall process to promote the highest degradation rates (Schimel et al., 2005).”
Soil microbial communities resistant to changes in plant functional group composition (2011, background): “Furthermore, nitrogen requirements appear to vary among soil microorganisms (Schimel et al., 2005).”