Kathryn G. Eilers

TL;DR: There was as much variation within individual soil pits as across surface soils from different biomes, emphasizing the importance of soil depth as an environmental gradient structuring soil microbial communities.

TL;DR: Analysis of surface soils collected across a range of biomes in Antarctica, Europe, and the Americas shows that Verrucomicrobia appear to be dominant in many soil bacterial communities across the globe, making additional research on their ecology clearly necessary.

TL;DR: Although community-level responses to substrate additions vary depending on the substrate and soil in question, there are specific bacterial taxa that preferentially respond to the substrate additions across soil types.

TL;DR: In this article, the water-soluble soil organic matter was extracted from nine different pits in a first-order montane catchment in the Colorado Front Range and fluorescence and UV-vis spectroscopy was used to analyze its chemical character.

TL;DR: This paper examined the orientation of cyanobacterial filaments within a laminated siliceous stromatolite from a Yellowstone National Park hot spring to identify the controls on microfabric development and whether phototaxis plays a role.