The ecology of forest soils is an important field of research due to the role of forests as
carbon sinks. Consequently, a significant amount of information has been accumulated …

Forests influence climate and mitigate global change through the storage of carbon in soils.
In turn, these complex ecosystems face important challenges, including increases in carbon …

Evidence shows that bacteria contribute actively to the decomposition of cellulose and
hemicellulose in forest soil; however, their role in this process is still unclear. Here we performed …

The evolutionary and environmental factors that shape fungal biogeography are incompletely
understood. Here, we assemble a large dataset consisting of previously generated …

Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition,
symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high …

Forests are essential biomes for global biogeochemical cycles, and belowground
microorganisms have a key role in providing relevant ecosystem services. To predict the effects of …

Climate change will affect semiarid ecosystems through severe droughts that increase the
competition for resources in plant and microbial communities. In these habitats, adaptations to …

Bacterial communities living in forest soils contribute to the decomposition of organic matter
and the recycling of nutrients in these ecosystems and form one of the most diverse habitats …

Forests accumulate and store large amounts of carbon (C), and a substantial fraction of this
stock is contained in deadwood. This transient pool is subject to decomposition by deadwood…

Forest soils represent important terrestrial carbon (C) pools, where C is primarily fixed in plant
biomass and then is incorporated in the biomass of fungi and bacteria. Although classical …