Archaeal communities in mineral soils were compared between a boreal forest in Finland and cold-temperate forest in Japan using 16S rRNA gene-targeted high-throughput sequencing. In boreal soils, Thaumarchaeota Group 1.1c archaea predominated and Thaumarchaeota Group 1.1a-associated and Group 1.1b archaea were also detected. In temperate soils, Thaumarchaeota Group 1.1a-associated and Group 1.1...

We studied two similar riparian sites in southern New England and examined ground water nitrate (NO~--N) removal in the subsurface of mowed (i.e., herbaceous) v . forested (i.e., woody) vegetation. Each site consisted of poorly drained, fine to medium sands and contained adjacent areas of mowed and forested vegetation. We dosed mesocosms with bromide and lSN labeled NO~-N amended ground water t...

Abstract Subsoil microbiomes play important roles in soil carbon and nutrient cycling, yet our understanding of the controls on subsoil microbial communities is limited. Here, we investigated direct (mean annual temperature precipitation) indirect (soil chemistry) effects climate microbiome composition extracellular enzyme activity throughout profile across two elevation-bioclimatic gradients c...