Microbial hotspots and hot moments in soil: Concept & review

By Y. Kuzyakov, E. Blagodatskaya. 2015

1,629 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Plant Science, Soil Science

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In Environmental Chemistry

1. W. Cheng
2. Petr Baldrian
3. J. Pausch
4. B. Razavi
5. Yiqi Luo
6. C. Huo
7. Noah Fierer
8. Y. Kuzyakov

In Plant Science

1. Y. Kuzyakov
2. E. Blagodatskaya
3. J. Pausch
4. B. Razavi
5. Petr Baldrian
6. W. Cheng
7. Noah Fierer
8. A. Sessitsch

In Soil Science

1. Y. Kuzyakov
2. E. Blagodatskaya
3. Noah Fierer
4. J. Pausch
5. M. Bradford
6. B. Razavi
7. Petr Baldrian
8. W. Cheng

Citations in the corpus

• Carbon input by roots into the soil: Quantification of rhizodeposition from root to ecosystem scale (2018, background): “…et al., 2012), formation of aggregates (Six, Bossuyt, Degryze, & Denef, 2004), C turnover and C sequestration (K€ogel-Knabner, 2002), structuring of microbial communities (Paterson, Gebbing, Abel, Sim, & Telfer, 2007), and maintaining their activities at high level (Kuzyakov & Blagodatskaya, 2015).”
• The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls (2017, background): “Earthworm burrows provide aeration, preferential flow paths for water, and surface area for the development of microbial hot spots, which are small soil volumes with greater process rates than the surrounding sites associated with earthworm activity and casts (Kuzyakov & Blagodatskaya 2015).”
• Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome (2017, background): “…by the widespread occurrence of antibiotic-producing and antibiotic-resistant soil bacteria 12 ), frequent disturbances (for example, drying–rewetting events, predation by earthworms and other fauna, and freezing– thawing), and an uneven distribution of resources across space and time 13 .”
• Pathways of mineral‐associated soil organic matter formation: Integrating the role of plant carbon source, chemistry, and point of entry (2018, background): “Because of this pattern of entry, a very dense and active microbial rhizosphere community can develop in the rhizosphere (Kuzyakov & Blagodatskaya, 2015).”
• Biological Control of Plant Pathogens: A Global Perspective (2022, background): “It is one of the most important microbial hotspots in the soil, with much greater process rates and more intensive interactions [22,23].”
• Earthworm burrows: Kinetics and spatial distribution of enzymes of C-, N- and P- cycles (2016, background): “The pore system formed by earthworms is termed the drilosphere and is among the most important microbial hotspots in soil (Kuzyakov and Blagodatskaya, 2015).”
• Earthworms Building Up Soil Microbiota, a Review (2019, background): “This triggers the acceleration of microbial processes for a short period of time (“hot moment”) and in a limited soil space (“hot spot”), at the microscale of a biopore or aggregate (Kuzyakov and Blagodatskaya, 2015) which reverberates on a larger scale, at the drilosphere and soil levels (Brown et ”
• Hydration and diffusion processes shape microbial community organization and function in model soil aggregates (2015, background): “EBRAHIMI AND OR HYDRATION AFFECTS MICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN SOIL AGGREGATES 9804 spots that dynamically adjusts within aggregates and soil profile-scale response are not yet fully understood as discussed in recent studies [Kuzyakov and Blagodatskaya, 2015].”