Bouncing Back: Plant-Associated Soil Microbes Respond Rapidly to Prairie Establishment

Bouncing Back: Plant-Associated Soil Microbes Respond Rapidly to Prairie Establishment

It is well established that soil microbial communities change in response to altered land use and land cover, but less is known about the timing of these changes. Understanding temporal patterns in recovering microbial communities is an important part of improving how we assess and manage reconstructed ecosystems. We assessed patterns of community-level microbial diversity and abundance in corn...

Bouncing Back

W hen an injury forces an athlete out of training and/or competition, the return-to-play (RTP) decision-making process may be simple or multidimensional. When analyzing these situations, an important factor to consider is why the injury occurred in the first place. Was the injury a result of an unavoidable trauma, such as a hit to the knee in a contact sport, or the result of fatigue or poor co...

Plant-Associated Microbes: From Rhizobia To Plant Microbiomes

Genomics of plant‐associated microbes

Plant-associated microbes and plant–microbe interactions can be largely divided in two types: detrimental (pathogenic) and beneficial (symbiotic) interactions. Neutral interactions also occur; this is the case for microbes that live in the rhizosphere (on roots) or phyllosphere (on leaves) without triggering any apparent plant response. Both pathogenic and symbiotic interactions are of relevanc...

Plants and Soil Microbes Respond to Recent Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula

Annual temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth, have risen by up to 0.56°C per decade since the 1950s. Terrestrial and marine organisms have shown changes in populations and distributions over this time, suggesting that the ecology of the Antarctic Peninsula is changing rapidly. However, these biological records are shorter in length than the me...