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  1. Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample (2010)
    J. Gregory Caporaso, Christian L. Lauber et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  2. Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms (2012)
    J. Gregory Caporaso, Christian L. Lauber et al. The ISME Journal
  3. The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities (2006)
    Noah Fierer, Robert B. Jackson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  4. TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL BACTERIA (2007)
    Noah Fierer, Mark A. Bradford et al. Ecology
  5. Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns (2010)
    Maria Gloria Domínguez-Bello, Elizabeth K. Costello et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  6. Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil (2010)
    Johannes Rousk, Erland Bååth et al. The ISME Journal
  7. Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale (2009)
    Christian L. Lauber, Micah Hamady et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  8. Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats Across Space and Time (2009)
    Elizabeth K. Costello, Christian L. Lauber et al. Science
  9. Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome (2017)
    Noah Fierer Nature Reviews Microbiology
  10. Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities (2011)
    Albert Barberán, Scott T. Bates et al. The ISME Journal
  11. A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil (2018)
    Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Angela Oliverio et al. Science
  12. The influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities across land-use types (2008)
    Christian L. Lauber, Michael S. Strickland et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  13. Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients (2011)
    Noah Fierer, Christian L. Lauber et al. The ISME Journal
  14. Variations in microbial community composition through two soil depth profiles (2003)
    Noah Fierer, Joshua P. Schimel et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  15. Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure by Use of Taxon-Specific Quantitative PCR Assays (2005)
    Noah Fierer, Jason A. Jackson et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  16. Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes (2012)
    Noah Fierer, Jonathan W. Leff et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  17. Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe (2015)
    Jonathan Leff, Stuart E. Jones et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  18. Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil (2010)
    Scott T. Bates, Donna Berg-Lyons et al. The ISME Journal
  19. Bacterial phylogeny structures soil resistomes across habitats (2014)
    Kevin J. Forsberg, Sanket Patel et al. Nature
  20. Consistent effects of nitrogen amendments on soil microbial communities and processes across biomes (2012)
    Kelly S. Ramirez, Joseph M. Craine et al. Global Change Biology
  21. A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses (2009)
    Ryan T. Jones, Michael S. Robeson et al. The ISME Journal
  22. Global patterns in belowground communities (2009)
    Noah Fierer, Michael S. Strickland et al. Ecology Letters
  23. Effects of drying–rewetting frequency on soil carbon and nitrogen transformations (2002)
    Noah Fierer, Joshua P. Schimel Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  24. The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria (2008)
    Noah Fierer, Micah Hamady et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  25. Moving pictures of the human microbiome (2011)
    J. Gregory Caporaso, Christian L. Lauber et al. Genome biology
  26. MICROBIAL NITROGEN LIMITATION INCREASES DECOMPOSITION (2007)
    Joseph M. Craine, Carl Morrow et al. Ecology
  27. Cohabiting family members share microbiota with one another and with their dogs (2013)
    Se Jin Song, Christian L. Lauber et al. eLife
  28. Relic DNA is abundant in soil and obscures estimates of soil microbial diversity (2016)
    Paul Carini, Jonathan W. Leff et al. Nature Microbiology
  29. A Proposed Mechanism for the Pulse in Carbon Dioxide Production Commonly Observed Following the Rapid Rewetting of a Dry Soil (2003)
    Noah Fierer, Joshua P. Schimel Soil Science Society of America Journal
  30. Digging deeper to find unique microbial communities: The strong effect of depth on the structure of bacterial and archaeal communities in soil (2012)
    Kathryn G. Eilers, Spencer J. Debenport et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  31. LITTER QUALITY AND THE TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY OF DECOMPOSITION (2005)
    Noah Fierer, Joseph M. Craine et al. Ecology
  32. Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition (2009)
    Michael S. Strickland, Christian L. Lauber et al. Ecology
  33. Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change (2016)
    Mark A. Bradford, William R. Wieder et al. Nature Climate Change
  34. Influence of Drying-Rewetting Frequency on Soil Bacterial Community Structure (2003)
    Noah Fierer, Joshua P. Schimel et al. Microbial Ecology
  35. The under-recognized dominance of Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial communities (2011)
    Scott T. Bates, Kathryn G. Eilers et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  36. The interplay between microbial communities and soil properties (2023)
    Laurent Philippot, Claire Chenu et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology
  37. Conditionally Rare Taxa Disproportionately Contribute to Temporal Changes in Microbial Diversity (2014)
    Ashley Shade, Stuart E. Jones et al. mBio
  38. Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic is not fundamentally different from that found in other biomes (2010)
    Haiyan Chu, Noah Fierer et al. Environmental Microbiology
  39. The ecology of the phyllosphere: geographic and phylogenetic variability in the distribution of bacteria on tree leaves (2010)
    Robert M. Bowers, Rob Knight et al. Environmental Microbiology
  40. Consistent effects of nitrogen fertilization on soil bacterial communities in contrasting systems (2010)
    Kelly S. Ramirez, Christian L. Lauber et al. Ecology
  41. Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States (2013)
    Noah Fierer, Joshua Ladau et al. Science
  42. Temporal variability in soil microbial communities across land-use types (2013)
    Christian L. Lauber, Kelly S. Ramirez et al. The ISME Journal
  43. Linking bacterial community composition to soil salinity along environmental gradients (2018)
    Kristin Rath, Noah Fierer et al. The ISME Journal
  44. Caterpillars lack a resident gut microbiome (2017)
    Tobin J. Hammer, Daniel H. Janzen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  45. The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems (2020)
    Angela Oliverio, Stefan Geisen et al. Science Advances
  46. How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health (2020)
    Noah Fierer, Stephen A. Wood et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  47. Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits (2018)
    Jonathan W. Leff, Richard D. Bardgett et al. The ISME Journal
  48. Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization consistently favor pathogenic over mutualistic fungi in grassland soils (2021)
    Ylva Lekberg, Carlos Alberto Arnillas et al. Nature Communications
  49. Not all animals need a microbiome (2019)
    Tobin J. Hammer, Jon G. Sanders et al. FEMS Microbiology Letters

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Jizhong Zhou 29541 20172 10901 758 59.7k
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Richard D. Bardgett 22251 4889 24789 341 53.8k
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Josep Peñuelas 28185 5233 14354 1.4k 82.5k
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