Microbial diversity and function in soil: from genes to ecosystems.

By V. Torsvik, L. Øvreås. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Soil Science

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Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives (2016, background): “, 2010) and contain a vast amount of genetic diversity, mainly derived from microbes but also plant roots (Torsvik et al., 1990; Torsvik and Ovreas, 2002).”
Methods for Analyzing Diversity of Microbial Communities in Natural Environments (2013, background): “Important questions to be addressed when studying bacteria in their natural environment are how do bacterial communities function, and how the qualitative variation in community composition occurs due to environmental changes (Torsvik and Øvreås, 2002).”
Microbial diversity in soil: selection microbial populations by plant and soil type and implications for disease suppressiveness. (2004, background): “With respect to the latter, bacterial populations in soil top layers can go up to more than 109 cells per g soil (115), and most of these cells are generally unculturable.”
Soil aggregate size mediates the impacts of cropping regimes on soil carbon and microbial communities (2015, background): “…on the functional structure of microbial communities involved in carbon cycling Analyzing microbial functional genes encoding key enzymes involved in major biogeochemical processes is important to link microbial community structure to their potential ecological functions (Torsvik and Øvreås, 2002).”
Past, present and future of soil quality indices : A biological perspective (2008, methodology): “Following the line established by Trasar-Cepeda et al. (1998), Armas et al.”
Effect of nanoparticles on crops and soil microbial communities (2018, background): “The protection of soil microbial biomass and diversity is one of the major issues in the field of sustainable use of soils (Torsvik and Øvreås 2002).”
Soil fauna and soil functions: a jigsaw puzzle (2014, background): “In addition, environmental factors (abiotic and biotic) could also change the strength of these interactions (e.g., Hooper and Dukes, 2004).”
Soil health in agricultural systems (2008, background): “The much-vaunted belief that the gene is the appropriate level to measure the state of the system (e.g. reviews by Insam 2001; Torsvik & Ovreas 2002; Kirk et al. 2004; O'Donnell 2005) may be misguided, distorted by a strong contemporary focus on (predominantly organismal) genomics in biology.”
The role of microorganisms at different stages of ecosystem development for soil formation (2013, background): “…of soils (Rajendhran and Gunasekaran, 2008) and many ecosystem services that are linked to terrestrial ecosystems, including plant production, safeguarding of drinking water or C sequestration, are closely linked to microbial activities and their functional traits (Torsvik and Øvreås, 2002).”
Biogeographical patterns of soil molecular microbial biomass as influenced by soil characteristics and management (2011, neutral): “…resulting in poor accessibility in environmental matrices, (2) their high density (i.e. more than 1 billion per gram of soil) and (3) their huge diversity (from 1000 to 1,000,000 species per gram of soil), but also by the lack of robust techniques to characterize them (Torsvik & Øvreås, 2002).”
Phosphate solubilizing microbes: sustainable approach for managing phosphorus deficiency in agricultural soils (2013, background): “However, more than 99% of soil microorganisms have not been cultured successfully (Torsvik and Ovreas 2002).”