🔥New in @NatureComms 🔥 Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships Led by @GuiyaoZhou & @ManuDelBaq w/ @MELucasBorja @EisenhauerLab @TadeoSaez and many more @IRNAS_CSIC #OpenAccess https://t.co/YvzqKXMZ7V

Holy shit, congrats @KiersToby!! You have provided so much for the fields of soil ecology, fungi, mutualism and of course promoting the protection of fungi and soil biodiversity. Well deserved! 🥳🥳 Excited to see what the future brings! 🫡 #SPUN

New paper from the lab in @NatureFoodJnl Global exploration of drought-tolerant bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere reveals microbiota shifts and functional taxa enhancing plant resilience. Led by Xiang et al. https://t.co/J8KdgcBXnU

Check out this very nice article by Tao Zhou et al in @PNASNews highlighting the important role of microbial life history in shaping ecosystem multifunctionality under increasingly arid conditions!! 🦠🍄🏜️ @BioFunLab @ManuDelBaq

What a cool article! 😉

Small increases in N can promote ecosystem services in nutrient poor drylands, but excess N can collapse the soil's capacity to maintain these important services. Results with clear implications under the impacts of atmospheric N deposition, and for future dryland management.

We show that the intermediate disturbance hypothesis can explain the response of dryland ecosystem services - mostly via microbial network complexity and specific ecological network clusters.

Soil microbial networks mediate long-term effects of nitrogen fertilization on ecosystem multiservices. 📰 Out now in @JEcology with @ManuDelBaq @GuiyaoZhou led by Yaodan Zhang & Xiaobo Yuan! https://t.co/JPK3vz8GI3 @IRNAS_CSIC @BioFunLab

In @SoilBiolBiochem, we reveal that many microbial genes ONLY respond to 🔥 in the context of fire legacy. + 🔥 rewired co-expression networks of functional genes, implying lack of coordination among pathways, particularly C-cycling. @MichelleAfkhami https://t.co/Q1rr2QPN9y

Article: The proportion of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in the ocean now substantially differs from the Redfield ratio, likely reflecting a reduction in phosphorus limitation https://t.co/84e2W3xw7I

Soil does more than you think❗ It connects #Water, #Food & #Life. Check out this conceptual diagram linking soil to ecosystem services & download the full report for the bigger picture 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 https://t.co/kmORkLvRid #SoilHealth #GlobalSoilPartnership

Online now: Integration of plant–soil feedbacks with resilience theory for climate change https://t.co/tbnM8sZuDa

So, future work should strive to understand local soil microbial adaptations in the context of soil legacy, in order to better predict their responses to future disturbances resulting from either direct (fire ignition/suppression) or indirect (climate change) human actions.

Finally, many negative functional responses to 🔥 are in the context of soils that have ATYPICAL FIRE HISTORIES, and we expect global-change affected fire regimes to even further impact microbiome services such as C sequestration, decomposition, and N-cycling...

The interaction of 🔥 and fire legacy produced unique sets of taxa, functions, or enzymatic pathways from those observed when only considering a main effect of fire... suggesting a lot of information is lost when not considering soil legacy

In gene co-expression networks, 🔥 decreased functional gene modules by 50 % and resulted in decreased enrichment or complete loss of important coordinated C-cycling functional pathways... but perhaps most importantly...

Using metatranscriptomics, we find that 🔥 shifts metabolically active microbial taxa in the soil, reduces expression of carbohydrate-cycling enzymes, largely downregulates microbial C, N, and P cycling functions, and dramatically reshapes functional gene co-expression...

🔥New Paper in @SoilBiolBiochem🔥 "50-year fire legacy regulates soil microbial C and nutrient cycling responses to new fire" w/ @MichelleAfkhami we show that microbiome functional responses to fire depend on soil fire legacy... https://t.co/BDEuG5CV5i

One month left to apply for a PhD position in my group on the ERC funded project EcoMEMO. Link to the PhD course and application: https://t.co/PKgK5P8b2V Please contact me if you need more info on the project, the group and life in Italy in general. More infor below⬇️

Very nice (and comprehensive) metagenomic analysis of the effects of multiple concurrent global change factors on soils in grasslands! 🌍 Further highlights the need to investigate these multi-factor treatments across systems... including in agriculture! 🍇🌽🌾🌻

Grapevines interact closely with microbes, forming a microbiome that affects soil, vine health, and wine quality. On #BiodiversityDay, the OIV emphasizes its document on the significance of microbial biodiversity for sustainable viticulture. Full document: https://t.co/pT5618Es7S