Mountains are pivotal to maintaining habitat heterogeneity, global biodiversity, ecosystem
functions and services to humans. They have provided classic model natural systems for …

Mountains have a long history in the study of diversity. Like macroscopic taxa, soil microbes
are hypothesized to be strongly structured by montane gradients, and recently there has …

Although biodiversity and ecosystem functions are strongly shaped by contemporary
environments, such as climate and local biotic and abiotic attributes, relatively little is known …

The study of elevational diversity gradients dates back to the foundation of biogeography.
Although elevational patterns of plant and animal diversity have been studied for centuries …

Microbial elevational diversity patterns have been extensively studied, but their shaping
mechanisms remain to be explored. Here, we examined soil bacterial and fungal diversity …

Both plants and their associated microbiomes can respond strongly to anthropogenic
environmental changes. These responses can be both ecological (eg a global change …

Predicting and managing the structure and function of plant microbiomes requires
quantitative understanding of community assembly and predictive models of spatial …

Background The increasing awareness of the role of phyllosphere microbial communities in
plant health calls for a greater understanding of their structure and dynamics in natural …

The elevational pattern of soil microbial diversity along mountain slopes has received
considerable interest over the last decade. An increasing amount of taxonomic data on soil …

While vegetation has intensively been surveyed on mountain summits, limited knowledge
exists about the diversity and community structure of soil biota. Here, we study how climatic …