Petr Baldrián

The study shows that warmer microclimates in forest gaps boost biodiversity in colder regions but not in warmer ones, suggesting climate-specific forest management strategies.

The paper maps the distribution of mycorrhizal fungal taxa and forecasts future range shifts, finding that ectomycorrhizal fungi have smaller niches and will experience greater range loss under climate change.

The paper tests how forest management strategies affect deadwood fungal diversity and decomposition by manipulating canopy cover and deadwood enrichment in beech and pine forests.

The paper experimentally increases forest structural heterogeneity and finds it boosts soil fungal gamma-diversity mainly through beta-diversity and microclimate effects, with weak phylogenetic diversity gains and contrasting functional responses.

This study examines prokaryotic genome evolution in the Movile Cave over 5.5 million years, finding reduced gene diversity, increased pseudogenization, and limited horizontal gene transfer.

The study examines how proximity to a source habitat affects plant and soil microbial communities during primary succession on a spoil heap, finding that plant communities are influenced by distance but microbial communities are not.

The paper describes the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) pilot project, which tests a decentralized model for producing high-quality reference genomes across 98 European species.

The paper expands the global RNA virome by five-fold, identifying new clades of RNA bacteriophages and revealing novel virus-host interactions.

MuDoGeR simplifies genome recovery from metagenomes for non-experts, demonstrating effectiveness across various sample sizes.

The paper recovers 447 eukaryotic bins from metagenomes, highlighting challenges in genome reconstruction and the need for improved methods and reference genomes.