Macroecological rules have been developed for plants and animals that describe large-
scale distributional patterns and attempt to explain the underlying physiological and …

Microbes encompass tremendous biodiversity, provide support to all living forms, including
humans, and play an important role in many ecosystem services. The rules that govern …

Introduction Rapidly advancing technologies and accumulating information about microbial
communities across the globe allow the quantification of microbial properties and functions …

Microbes inhabit a wide range of habitats, from hot springs to the deep subsurface, and it is
highly improbable that one will be able to observe similar biogeographical patterns across …

With rapidly improving sequencing technologies, scientists have recently gained the ability
to examine diverse microbial communities at high genomic resolution, revealing that both …

The recent observation of a power–law relationship, S∝ Az, between number of taxa, S, and
area, A, for microbial eukaryotes and bacteria suggests that this is one of the few generic …

Background The question of which ecological and evolutionary processes structure the
distribution of biodiversity has intrigued scientists for centuries, and historically, inferences …

There has been a recent explosion of research within the field of microbial ecology that has
been fueled, in part, by methodological improvements that make it feasible to characterize …

The elevational gradient in plant and animal diversity is one of the most widely documented
patterns in ecology and, although no consensus explanation exists, many hypotheses have …

I asked whether Grime's triangle of competitive, stress tolerance and ruderal ecological
strategies—which was originally developed for plants—applies to microbes. I conducted a …