Jennifer Selinski, Andreas Hartmann, Adrian Kordes, Gabriele Deckers-Hebestreit, James Whelan, and Renate Scheibe Division of Plant Physiology, Department of Biology/Chemistry, University of Osnabrueck, D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Division of Microbiology, Department of Biology/Chemistry, University of Osnabrueck, D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Department of Animal, Plant, and Soil Science, Austra...

1 Research Group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology, Department of Biology, Universiteit Antwerpen (Campus Drie Eiken), Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium 2 Division Soil and Water Management, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 20, 3001 Leuven/Heverlee, Belgium 3 Laboratory of Plant and Microbial Ecology, Institute of Plant Biology B22,...

*Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521; †Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; ‡Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; §Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; and ¶Departments of Plant Pathology and Crop and S...

[1] In most climates on Earth, biological processes control soil N. In the Atacama Desert of Chile, aridity severely limits biology, and soils accumulate atmospheric NO3 . We examined this apparent transformation of the soil N cycle using a series of ancient Atacama Desert soils (>2 My) that vary in rainfall (21 to <2 mm yr ). With decreasing rainfall, soil organic C decreases to 0.3 kg C m 2 a...

EDITORIAL article Front. Soil Sci., 12 July 2023Sec. Biology, Ecosystems and Biodiversity Volume 3 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoil.2023.1241590

BACKGROUND Invasion-biology is largely based on non-experimental observation of larger organisms. Here, we apply an experimental approach to the subject. By using microbial-based microcosm-experiments, invasion-biology can be placed on firmer experimental, and hence, less anecdotal ground. A better understanding of the mechanisms that govern invasion-success of bacteria in soil communities will...

Soils and their biota have been studied by a variety of observational and experimental methods that have allowed biologists to infer their structural and functional interactions. Viewing progress made over the last 10 years, it is apparent that an increasing diversity of analytical and chemical methods are providing much more detailed information about feeding preferences and niche overlaps of ...

Using soil molecular biology to make a traceable fingerprint has been proposed as putative method for forensic science. One unknown of this method is how the soil microbial community responds to contrasting conditions for storage and handling. To examine this we compared field fresh sample to soil samples stored one of six ways (4 ̊C, -20 ̊C, -80 ̊C, air dried, freeze dried, and oven dried) for 5 ...

WSL, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Ecosystem Boundaries Research Unit, Wetlands Research Group, Station 2, Lausanne, Switzerland, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Ecological Systems, Station 2, Lausanne, Switzerland, Plant and Soil Laboratory, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Department of Zoo...