Soil Microbes Diversity and Soil Function
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2016) | Viewed by 5390
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many key biochemical reactions in living systems (from the molecular to ecosystem level) have been shown to be associated with microbial communities and their constitutive molecules that catalyze the transformation of both organic and inorganic compounds. In particular, previous work has described the importance of these communities to the structure and function of soil ecosystems (i.e., microbial transformation of organic materials in soil, providing key nutrients for both microbial and plant systems, sequestering of key chemical elements in the biosphere). Changes occurring in molecular technology have allowed for the quantification and visualization of microbial community structure, function, and diversity—demonstrating that like plant and animal distributions, microbial distributions can be the result of both necessary and random processes. These developments have allowed for a more comprehensive view of ecosystem services that soil microbial diversity provides. This Special Issue will provide integrative, inclusive, and insightful analysis of the structural and functional diversity of soil microbes. It will serve as a platform to share cutting-edge knowledge about the role, performance, and response of soil microbial communities in various ecological settings. Guest Editors welcome methodological studies, review articles, and empirical research (or combination thereof) in but not limited to the following areas.
- Functional Gene Analysis
- Soil Pollution
- Land and Agricultural Management
- Plant-Soil-Microbe Interactions
- Animal-Soil-Microbe Interactions
- Soil Microbial Community Modeling
Dr. Raymon Shange
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Microbial community ecology and evolution
- Microbial Diversity
- Soil Metagenomics
- Soil Metatranscriptomics
- rRNA Gene Sequencing
- Soil Enzyme Activity
- Geomicrobiology
- Environmental biogeochemistry
