Soil microbial communities are essential for ecosystem function, but linking community
composition to biogeochemical processes is challenging because of high microbial diversity …

Bacteria have been inferred to exhibit relatively weak biogeographic patterns. To what
extent such findings reflect true biological phenomena or methodological artifacts remains …

The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented
opportunities to further unravel bacterial biodiversity and its worldwide role from human …

Soil habitats contain vast numbers of microorganisms and harbor a large portion of the
planet's biological diversity. Although high-throughput sequencing technologies continue to …

The extent to which the distribution of soil bacteria is controlled by local environment vs.
spatial factors (eg dispersal, colonization limitation, evolutionary events) is poorly …

To begin defining the key determinants that drive microbial community structure in soil, we
examined 29 soil samples from four geographically distinct locations taken from the surface …

Simultaneously assessing shifts in microbial community composition along landscape and
depth gradients allows us to decouple correlations among environmental variables, thus …

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 …

Microorganisms exist throughout the soil profile and those microorganisms living in sub-
surface horizons likely play key roles in nutrient cycling and soil formation. However, the …

A challenge in ecology and biogeography is to understand the drivers of the composition
and distribution of biological communities. Environmental factors (especially pH) and …