One book chapter is out, it was a collaborative effort by Xiaofeng Xu and David Lipson
There has been an increasing effort to incorporate the inner workings of soil microbial communities into conceptual and quantitative models of processes at the ecosystem or global scale. Many studies show that the characteristics of microbial species and their interactions with each other and with plants strongly influence larger-scale processes and that explicitly including microbes can improve the performance of ecosystem models. We review the current understanding of how the physiology and community structure of soil microbial communities can impact cycling of carbon (C), nutrients, and greenhouse gases and recent progress in integrating this knowledge into quantitative models of ecosystems and climate change. Microbes can be characterized by ecological strategies that influence carbon use efficiency, stress physiology, elemental ratios (stoichiometry), production of extracellular enzymes, and responses to temperature. Competitive, synergistic, and trophic interactions within soil microbial communities influence process rates and responses to climate change. Plant-microbe interactions are central in climate change responses of ecosystems and can operate by changes in nutrient cycling or through alterations in the balance of mutualists and parasites. There are trends that connect broad-scale community structure with functioning and evidence that ecological roles of microbes can be mapped to phylogeny at the genus or species level. Models that explicitly simulate microbes have included their physiological limits, growth kinetics, interactions with plants, stoichiometry, dormancy, community structure, and community interactions. Given recent advances in conceptual frameworks for microbial ecology and in techniques for describing microbial communities and computing power, further progress will depend on increased interactions between microbiologists and modelers.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-10777-2_3
