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 …

Although ongoing research has revealed some of the main drivers behind global spatial
patterns of microbial communities, spatio-temporal dynamics of these communities still …

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

Revealing the effects of spatial heterogeneity on microorganisms is crucial for the further
understanding of microbial diversity, turnover and ecological processes. However, microbial …

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

Soil microbial communities are abundant, hyper‐diverse and mediate global
biogeochemical cycles, but we do not yet understand the processes mediating their …

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

Identifying the traits that determine spatial distributions can be challenging when studying
organisms, like bacteria, for which phenotypic information is limited or non‐existent …

Despite recognition of the importance of soil bacteria to terrestrial ecosystem functioning
there is little consensus on the factors regulating belowground biodiversity. Here we present …

Beta diversity is a key component of biodiversity with implications ranging from species
dynamics to ecosystem functioning. However, β-diversity and its drivers have received little …