Soil organisms have an important role in aboveground community dynamics and ecosystem
functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, most studies have considered soil biota as a …

Protists include all eukaryotes except plants, fungi and animals. They are an essential, yet
often forgotten, component of the soil microbiome. Method developments have now furthered …

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 …

Soil protists are commonly suggested being solely bacterivorous, serving together with
bacterivorous nematodes as the main controllers of the bacterial energy channel in soil food webs…

The soil microbiome regulates vital ecosystem functions ranging from primary production to
soil carbon sequestration. Yet, we have only begun to understand the factors regulating the …

The high numbers and diversity of protists in soil systems have long been presumed, but
their true diversity and community composition have remained largely concealed. Traditional …

Protists dominate eukaryotic diversity and play key functional roles in all ecosystems, particularly
by catalyzing carbon and nutrient cycling. To date, however, a comparative analysis of …

Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing nutrients
during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground biodiversity …

Protists, the most diverse eukaryotes, are largely considered to be free‐living bacterivores,
but vast numbers of taxa are known to parasitize plants or animals. High‐throughput …

Background Plant health is intimately influenced by the rhizosphere microbiome, a complex
assembly of organisms that changes markedly across plant growth. However, most …