<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thompson, Andrew R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Geisen, Stefan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Byron Adams</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shotgun metagenomics reveal a diverse assemblage of protists in a model Antarctic soil ecosystem</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environmental Microbiology</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antarctica</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">extremophiles</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">functional groups</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">metagenomics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">protozoa</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">soil microbiology</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">08/2020</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1462-2920.15198</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) of Antarctica are established models for understanding fundamental processes in soil ecosystem functioning (e.g. ecological tipping points, community structuring, and nutrient cycling) because the extreme physical environment drastically reduces biodiversity and ecological complexity. Understanding the functioning of MDV soils requires in‐depth knowledge of the diversity of MDV soil species. Protists, which contribute significantly to soil ecosystem functioning worldwide, remain poorly characterized in the MDV. To better assess the diversity of MDV protists, we performed shotgun metagenomics on 18 sites representing a variety of landscape features and edaphic variables. Our results show MDV soil protists are diverse at both the genus (155 of 281 eukaryote genera) and family (120) levels, but comprise only 6% of eukaryotic reads. Protists are structured by moisture, total N, and distance from the local coast, and possess limited richness in arid (&amp;lt;5% moisture) and at high elevation sites, known drivers of communities in the MDV. High relative diversity and broad distribution of protists in our study promotes these organisms as key members of MDV soil microbiomes and the MDV as a useful system for understanding the contribution of soil protists to the structure of soil microbiomes.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">van den Hoogen, Johan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Geisen, Stefan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Routh, Devin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ferris, Howard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Traunspurger, Walter</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wardle, D</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">de Goede, Ron G. M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Byron Adams</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ahmad, Wasim</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andriuzzi, Walter S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Richard D. Bardgett</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bonkowski, Michael</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Campos-Herrera, Raquel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cares, Juvenil E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Caruso, Tancredi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">de Brito Caixeta, Larissa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chen, Xiaoyun</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Costa, Sofia R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Creamer, Rachel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mauro da Cunha Castro, José</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dam, Marie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Djigal, Djibril</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Escuer, Miguel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Griffiths, Bryan S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gutiérrez, Carmen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hohberg, Karin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kalinkina, Daria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kardol, Paul</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kergunteuil, Alan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Korthals, Gerard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Krashevska, Valentyna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kudrin, Alexey A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Li, Qi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liang, Wenju</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magilton, Matthew</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marais, Mariette</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martín, José Antonio Rodríguez</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Matveeva, Elizaveta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mayad, El Hassan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mulder, Christian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mullin, Peter</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neilson, Roy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nguyen, T. A. Duong</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Uffe N. Nielsen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Okada, Hiroaki</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rius, Juan Emilio Palomares</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pan, Kaiwen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Peneva, Vlada</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pellissier, Loïc</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carlos Pereira da Silva, Julio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pitteloud, Camille</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Powers, Thomas O.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Powers, Kirsten</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quist, Casper W.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rasmann, Sergio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Moreno, Sara Sánchez</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scheu, Stefan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Setälä, Heikki</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sushchuk, Anna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tiunov, Alexei V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Trap, Jean</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">van der Putten, W</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vestergård, Mette</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Villenave, Cecile</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Waeyenberge, Lieven</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diana H. Wall</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wilschut, Rutger</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wright, Daniel G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yang, Jiue-in</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crowther, Thomas Ward</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nature</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">08/2019</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1418-6</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">572</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Soil organisms are a crucial part of the terrestrial biosphere. Despite their importance for ecosystem functioning, few quantitative, spatially explicit models of the active belowground community currently exist. In particular, nematodes are the most abundant animals on Earth, filling all trophic levels in the soil food web. Here we use 6,759 georeferenced samples to generate a mechanistic understanding of the patterns of the global abundance of nematodes in the soil and the composition of their functional groups. The resulting maps show that 4.4 &amp;plusmn; 0.64 &amp;times; 10&lt;sup&gt;20&lt;/sup&gt; nematodes (with a total biomass of approximately 0.3 gigatonnes) inhabit surface soils across the world, with higher abundances in sub-Arctic regions (38% of total) than in temperate (24%) or tropical (21%) regions. Regional variations in these global trends also provide insights into local patterns of soil fertility and functioning. These high-resolution models provide the first steps towards representing soil ecological processes in global biogeochemical models and will enable the prediction of elemental cycling under current and future climate scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7768</style></issue></record></records></xml>