Search Results - "Frossard, Aline"
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Tolerance of the forest soil microbiome to increasing mercury concentrations
Published in Soil biology & biochemistry (01-02-2017)“…Mercury (Hg) occurs naturally in soil and can reach high concentrations in the environment due to anthropogenic activities; however, little is known about its…”
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Functional and Structural Responses of Arctic and Alpine Soil Prokaryotic and Fungal Communities Under Freeze-Thaw Cycles of Different Frequencies
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (25-05-2020)“…Ongoing climate change involves increasing snow scarcity, which results in more frequent freeze-thaw cycles (FTCs) in polar and alpine soils. Although repeated…”
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Flow Cytometric Assessment of Bacterial Abundance in Soils, Sediments and Sludge
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (14-06-2016)“…Bacterial abundance is a fundamental measure in microbiology, but its assessment is often tedious, especially for soil, and sediment samples. To overcome this…”
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Disconnect of microbial structure and function: enzyme activities and bacterial communities in nascent stream corridors
Published in The ISME Journal (01-03-2012)“…A fundamental issue in microbial and general ecology is the question to what extent environmental conditions dictate the structure of communities and the…”
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Attributes of Drying Define the Structure and Functioning of Microbial Communities in Temperate Riverbed Sediment
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (14-06-2021)“…Combined effects of climate change and increasing anthropogenic water demand have increased and extended dry period occurrences in rivers worldwide. Riverbed…”
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Global distribution of soil fauna functional groups and their estimated litter consumption across biomes
Published in Scientific reports (17-10-2022)“…Soil invertebrates (i.e., soil fauna) are important drivers of many key processes in soils including soil aggregate formation, water retention, and soil…”
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Synthetic oligonucleotides as quantitative PCR standards for quantifying microbial genes
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (24-10-2023)“…Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) has been widely used to quantify gene copy numbers in microbial ecology. Despite its simplicity and straightforwardness,…”
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The Soil Microbiome of GLORIA Mountain Summits in the Swiss Alps
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (15-05-2019)“…While vegetation has intensively been surveyed on mountain summits, limited knowledge exists about the diversity and community structure of soil biota. Here,…”
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Soil organic matter properties drive microbial enzyme activities and greenhouse gas fluxes along an elevational gradient
Published in Geoderma (01-09-2024)“…•CO2 fluxes increased with altitude below treeline, declining from treeline to summit.•There were no significant changes of CH4 fluxes along the altitudinal…”
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Chemical composition of soil organic matter and potential enzyme activity in the topsoil along a moisture gradient in the High Arctic (Svalbard)
Published in Geoderma (01-06-2020)“…•Lipids/sterols, alkylaromatics and phenols/lignin monomers dominated Arctic SOM.•Soil depths significantly influenced SOM composition and potential enzyme…”
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Diel-scale temporal dynamics recorded for bacterial groups in Namib Desert soil
Published in Scientific reports (10-01-2017)“…Microbes in hot desert soil partake in core ecosystem processes e.g., biogeochemical cycling of carbon. Nevertheless, there is still a fundamental lack of…”
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Modelling soil prokaryotic traits across environments with the trait sequence database ampliconTraits and the R package MicEnvMod
Published in Ecological informatics (01-11-2024)“…We present a comprehensive, customizable workflow for inferring prokaryotic phenotypic traits from marker gene sequences and modelling the relationships…”
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Soil Hg Contamination Impact on Earthworms’ Gut Microbiome
Published in Applied sciences (01-04-2020)“…Mercury (Hg) is one of the most toxic heavy metals and is known for its persistence in the environment and potential to accumulate along the food chain. In…”
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Methodological guidelines and publications of benefit–risk assessment for health technology assessment: a scoping review
Published in BMJ open (08-06-2024)“…ObjectivesTo map the available methodological guidelines and documents for conducting and reporting benefit–risk assessment (BRA) during health technologies’…”
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Long-term functional recovery and associated microbial community structure after sediment drying and bedform migration
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (12-05-2023)“…Climate change and erosion from agricultural areas cause increased drying periods and bedform migration of riverbeds, respectively, worldwide. Both sediment…”
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Methodological guidelines and publications of benefit–risk assessment for health technology assessment: a scoping review protocol
Published in BMJ open (10-12-2023)“…BackgroundBenefit–risk assessment (BRA) is used in multiple phases along the health technology’s life-cycle to evaluate the balance between the benefits and…”
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Litter Supply as a Driver of Microbial Activity and Community Structure on Decomposing Leaves: a Test in Experimental Streams
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-08-2013)“…Classifications Services AEM Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models. I. review and model concept
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (2020)“…The relatively poor simulation of the below-ground processes is a severe drawback for many ecosystem models, especially when predicting responses to climate…”
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Metaviromes of Extracellular Soil Viruses along a Namib Desert Aridity Gradient
Published in Genome announcements (Washington, DC) (12-01-2017)“…The Namib Desert in southwest Africa is hyperarid and composed of distinct microbial communities affected by a longitudinal aridity gradient. Here, we report…”
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Metatranscriptomic responses of High-Arctic tundra soil microbiomes to carbon input
Published in Soil biology & biochemistry (01-10-2024)“…Over recent decades, there has been a noticeable change in vegetation diversity accompanied by increased plant productivity in tundra systems of the…”
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