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A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming by Ning, Daliang, Yuan, Mengting, Wu, Linwei, Zhang, Ya, Guo, Xue, Zhou, Xishu, Yang, Yunfeng, Arkin, Adam P., Firestone, Mary K., Zhou, Jizhong

“…Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology. Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal,…”
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Responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to extreme desiccation and rewetting by Barnard, Romain L, Osborne, Catherine A, Firestone, Mary K

“…The microbial response to summer desiccation reflects adaptation strategies, setting the stage for a large rainfall-induced soil CO 2 pulse upon rewetting, an…”
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Rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses result from sequential resuscitation of phylogenetically clustered microbial groups by Placella, Sarah A, Brodie, Eoin L, Firestone, Mary K

“…The pulse of carbon dioxide (CO ₂) resulting from the first rainfall after the dry summer in Mediterranean ecosystems is so large that it is well documented at…”
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Evaluating rRNA as an indicator of microbial activity in environmental communities: limitations and uses by Blazewicz, Steven J, Barnard, Romain L, Daly, Rebecca A, Firestone, Mary K

“…Microbes exist in a range of metabolic states (for example, dormant, active and growing) and analysis of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is frequently employed to…”
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Growth and death of bacteria and fungi underlie rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses from seasonally dried soil by Blazewicz, Steven J., Schwartz, Egbert, Firestone, Mary K.

“…The rapid increase in microbial activity that occurs when a dry soil is rewetted has been well documented and is of great interest due to implications of…”
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Rhizosphere priming effects on soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization by Zhu, Biao, Gutknecht, Jessica L.M., Herman, Donald J., Keck, Daniel C., Firestone, Mary K., Cheng, Weixin

“…Living roots and their rhizodeposits affect microbial activity and soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) mineralization. This so-called rhizosphere priming effect…”
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Changing precipitation pattern alters soil microbial community response to wet-up under a Mediterranean-type climate by Barnard, Romain L, Osborne, Catherine A, Firestone, Mary K

“…A large soil CO 2 pulse is associated with rewetting soils after the dry summer period under a Mediterranean-type climate, significantly contributing to…”
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Transcriptional Response of Nitrifying Communities to Wetting of Dry Soil by PLACELLA, Sarah A, FIRESTONE, Mary K

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Interactions between an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus and a soil microbial community mediating litter decomposition by Herman, Donald J., Firestone, Mary K., Nuccio, Erin, Hodge, Angela

“…Abstract We investigated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) alteration of microbial mediation of litter decomposition. AMF (Glomus hoi) were either allowed…”
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Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly by Zhalnina, Kateryna, Louie, Katherine B., Hao, Zhao, Mansoori, Nasim, da Rocha, Ulisses Nunes, Shi, Shengjing, Cho, Heejung, Karaoz, Ulas, Loqué, Dominique, Bowen, Benjamin P., Firestone, Mary K., Northen, Trent R., Brodie, Eoin L.

“…Like all higher organisms, plants have evolved in the context of a microbial world, shaping both their evolution and their contemporary ecology. Interactions…”
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Microbial functional diversity: From concepts to applications by Escalas, Arthur, Hale, Lauren, Voordeckers, James W., Yang, Yunfeng, Firestone, Mary K., Alvarez‐Cohen, Lisa, Zhou, Jizhong

“…Functional diversity is increasingly recognized by microbial ecologists as the essential link between biodiversity patterns and ecosystem functioning,…”
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Changes in microbial community characteristics and soil organic matter with nitrogen additions in two tropical forests by Cusack, Daniela F, Silver, Whendee L, Torn, Margaret S, Burton, Sarah D, Firestone, Mary K

“…Microbial communities and their associated enzyme activities affect the amount and chemical quality of carbon (C) in soils. Increasing nitrogen (N) deposition,…”
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Microbial communities acclimate to recurring changes in soil redox potential status by DeAngelis, Kristen M, Silver, Whendee L, Thompson, Andrew W, Firestone, Mary K

“…Rapidly fluctuating environmental conditions can significantly stress organisms, particularly when fluctuations cross thresholds of normal physiological…”
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Taxon-specific microbial growth and mortality patterns reveal distinct temporal population responses to rewetting in a California grassland soil by Blazewicz, Steven J., Hungate, Bruce A., Koch, Benjamin J., Nuccio, Erin E., Morrissey, Ember, Brodie, Eoin L., Schwartz, Egbert, Pett-Ridge, Jennifer, Firestone, Mary K.

“…Microbial activity increases after rewetting dry soil, resulting in a pulse of carbon mineralization and nutrient availability. The biogeochemical responses to…”
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Effects of selected root exudate components on soil bacterial communities by Shi, Shengjing, Richardson, Alan E., O'Callaghan, Maureen, DeAngelis, Kristen M., Jones, Eirian E., Stewart, Alison, Firestone, Mary K., Condron, Leo M.

“…Abstract Low-molecular-weight organic compounds in root exudates play a key role in plant–microorganism interactions by influencing the structure and function…”
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A subset of viruses thrives following microbial resuscitation during rewetting of a seasonally dry California grassland soil by Nicolas, Alexa M., Sieradzki, Ella T., Pett-Ridge, Jennifer, Banfield, Jillian F., Taga, Michiko E., Firestone, Mary K., Blazewicz, Steven J.

“…Viruses are abundant, ubiquitous members of soil communities that kill microbial cells, but how they respond to perturbation of soil ecosystems is essentially…”
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Tropical forest soil microbial communities couple iron and carbon biogeochemistry by Dubinsky, Eric A., Silver, Whendee L., Firestone, Mary K.

“…We report that iron-reducing bacteria are primary mediators of anaerobic carbon oxidation in upland tropical soils spanning a rainfall gradient (3500-5000…”
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Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics reveals that Saccharibacteria utilize microbially-processed plant-derived carbon by Starr, Evan P, Shi, Shengjing, Blazewicz, Steven J, Probst, Alexander J, Herman, Donald J, Firestone, Mary K, Banfield, Jillian F

“…The transformation of plant photosynthate into soil organic carbon and its recycling to CO by soil microorganisms is one of the central components of the…”
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Coupled anaerobic methane oxidation and metal reduction in soil under elevated CO2 by Xu, Chenchao, Zhang, Naifang, Zhang, Kaihang, Li, Shuyao, Xia, Qing, Xiao, Jing, Liang, Maojun, Lei, Weilei, He, Junpan, Chen, Gaiping, Ge, Chengjun, Zheng, Xunhua, Zhu, Jianguo, Hu, Shuijin, Koide, Roger T., Firestone, Mary K., Cheng, Lei

“…Continued current emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) by human activities will increase global atmospheric CO2 and CH4 concentrations and…”
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Protist diversity and community complexity in the rhizosphere of switchgrass are dynamic as plants develop by Ceja-Navarro, Javier A, Wang, Yuan, Ning, Daliang, Arellano, Abelardo, Ramanculova, Leila, Yuan, Mengting Maggie, Byer, Alyssa, Craven, Kelly D, Saha, Malay C, Brodie, Eoin L, Pett-Ridge, Jennifer, Firestone, Mary K

“…Despite their widespread distribution and ecological importance, protists remain one of the least understood components of the soil and rhizosphere microbiome…”
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