Although many studies have investigated the spatial scaling of microbial communities living
in surface soils, very little is known about the patterns within deeper strata, nor is the …

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 …

Biogeographic patterns and drivers of soil microbial diversity have been extensively studied
in the past few decades. However, most research has focused on the topsoil, while the …

Soil microorganisms play a key role in driving major biogeochemical cycles and in global
responses to climate change. However, understanding and predicting the behavior and …

The diversity of eukaryotic macroorganisms such as animals and plants usually declines
with increasing elevation and latitude. By contrast, the community structure of prokaryotes …

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 …

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 …

Considering the extensive functional redundancy in microbial communities and great
difficulty in elucidating it based on taxonomic structure, studies on the biogeography of soil …

Quantifying diversity with phylogeny-informed metrics helps understand the effects of
diversity on ecosystem functioning (EF). The sign of these effects remains controversial …

A central challenge in ecology is to understand the relative importance of processes that
shape diversity patterns. Compared with aboveground biota, little is known about spatial …