Yevgeniy Marusenko

TL;DR: Through continental-scale compositional surveys of soil crust microbial communities across arid North America, a latitudinal replacement in dominance between two key topsoil cyanobacteria that was driven largely by temperature is observed.

TL;DR: Overall, warming-induced shifts in fungal communities might be accompanied by an increased ability to break down recalcitrant C, which may reduce soil C storage under global warming.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of fungi in nitrate (NO3−) and nitrous oxide (N2O) production in soils from regions across the southwestern US was investigated, and they concluded that fungi are likely responsible for denitrification in aridland soils, and that land-use changes associated with urbanization alter the biotic pathways responsible for nitrogen cycling.

TL;DR: In this article, the contribution of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in BSCs has been shown, but the role and extent of the recently discovered Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea (AOA) have not.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used clone libraries and quantitative PCR targeting the amoA gene, which codes for the ammonia monooxygenase enzyme, universally present in ammonia-oxidizing microbes.