Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01381-0Microbial interventions offer sustainable opportunities to enhance soil health and ecosystem functioning, but they can also have unintended ecological consequences. This Comment explores their benefits and risks, arguing for a shift in perspective from microbial products as agricultural inputs to tools for ecological restoration.

Cultivation-dependent techniques, computational analyses and genome-scale metabolic models show widespread amino acid auxotrophies, suggesting that soil microorganisms exist within integrated ecologic...

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Abstract. Microbial communities are often more species-rich than predicted from classical ecological models. The high levels of coexistence observed in nat

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Marker-gene microbiome surveys systematically under-sample rare taxa, causing alpha diversity metrics to reflect dominance rather than true richness. This conceptual mismatch can lead to misleading e...

Microorganisms play key roles in transforming soil carbon into greenhouse gases. As Arctic soils warm as a result of climate change, greater depths and expanses of permanently frozen soil are experien...

Nature - Plant community properties affect ecosystem functioning via energy fluxes in food webs, with the leaf and root resource economics of dominant tree species controlling soil food web...

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Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01314-xIn this Journal Club, Ashish Malik discusses a paper showing that soil microorganisms build stable soil organic matter.

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In this Journal Club, Ashish Malik discusses a paper showing that soil microorganisms build stable soil organic matter.

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In this Journal Club, Ashish Malik discusses a paper showing that soil microorganisms build stable soil organic matter.

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Decade-long warming increased soil antibiotic-resistance genes by about 24%, enriching resistant microbes and gene transfer, driven by selection for thermal tolerance and linked traits, with implicati...

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Nature Microbiology, Published online: 22 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02287-6Here the authors review current understanding of the mechanistic marine microbial interactions that underpin large-scale ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycling.

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Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes increased by +0.7% within 2025. However, large-scale deployment of clean electricity sources during the year avoided 10.3 Gt o...

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