You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
X Demographics
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Nature, August 2018
|
| DOI | 10.1038/s41586-018-0386-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mohammad Bahram, Falk Hildebrand, Sofia K. Forslund, Jennifer L. Anderson, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Peter M. Bodegom, Johan Bengtsson-Palme, Sten Anslan, Luis Pedro Coelho, Helery Harend, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Marnix H. Medema, Mia R. Maltz, Sunil Mundra, Pål Axel Olsson, Mari Pent, Sergei Põlme, Shinichi Sunagawa, Martin Ryberg, Leho Tedersoo, Peer Bork |
| Abstract |
Soils harbour some of the most diverse microbiomes on Earth and are essential for both nutrient cycling and carbon storage. To understand soil functioning, it is necessary to model the global distribution patterns and functional gene repertoires of soil microorganisms, as well as the biotic and environmental associations between the diversity and structure of both bacterial and fungal soil communities1-4. Here we show, by leveraging metagenomics and metabarcoding of global topsoil samples (189 sites, 7,560 subsamples), that bacterial, but not fungal, genetic diversity is highest in temperate habitats and that microbial gene composition varies more strongly with environmental variables than with geographic distance. We demonstrate that fungi and bacteria show global niche differentiation that is associated with contrasting diversity responses to precipitation and soil pH. Furthermore, we provide evidence for strong bacterial-fungal antagonism, inferred from antibiotic-resistance genes, in topsoil and ocean habitats, indicating the substantial role of biotic interactions in shaping microbial communities. Our results suggest that both competition and environmental filtering affect the abundance, composition and encoded gene functions of bacterial and fungal communities, indicating that the relative contributions of these microorganisms to global nutrient cycling varies spatially. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 231 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 39 | 17% |
| Germany | 10 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 4% |
| Australia | 8 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 7 | 3% |
| Sweden | 6 | 3% |
| Spain | 6 | 3% |
| Japan | 6 | 3% |
| India | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 46 | 20% |
| Unknown | 90 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 122 | 53% |
| Scientists | 99 | 43% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 3% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,664 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1664 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 351 | 21% |
| Researcher | 284 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 203 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 111 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 88 | 5% |
| Other | 221 | 13% |
| Unknown | 406 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 531 | 32% |
| Environmental Science | 230 | 14% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 185 | 11% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 45 | 3% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 28 | 2% |
| Other | 141 | 8% |
| Unknown | 504 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 216. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 January 2024.
All research outputs
#182,995
of 25,746,891 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#11,073
of 98,656 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,689
of 342,939 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#240
of 946 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,746,891 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 98,656 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 102.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 342,939 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 946 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its contemporaries.