Bacteria and nutrients were determined in upper soil samples collected underneath and
between canopies of the dominant perennial in each of three sites along a steep …

Macroecology seeks to understand broad‐scale patterns in the diversity and abundance of
organisms, but macroecologists typically study aboveground macroorganisms. Belowground …

Understanding controls over the distribution of soil bacteria is a fundamental step toward
describing soil ecosystems, understanding their functional capabilities, and predicting their …

Patterns of variation in plant and animal diversity along precipitation gradients have been
extensively studied, but much less is known about how and to what extent precipitation …

The existence of biogeographic patterns among most free-living microbial taxa has been
well established, yet little is known about the underlying mechanisms that shape these …

The goal of this study was to investigate the spatial turnover of soil bacterial communities in
response to environmental changes introduced by the practices of soybean monoculture or …

Alt'itudinal gradients strongly affect plant biodiversity, but the effects on microbial patterns
remain unclear, especially in the large scale. We therefore designed an altitudinal gradient …

Spatial and temporal processes shaping microbial communities are inseparably linked but
rarely studied together. By Illumina 16S rRNA sequencing, we monitored soil bacteria in 360 …

Large-scale environmental sequencing efforts have transformed our understanding of the
spatial controls over soil microbial community composition and turnover. Yet, our knowledge …

Microorganisms exist throughout the soil profile and those microorganisms living in deeper
soil horizons likely play key roles in regulating biogeochemical processes. However, the …