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 …

A central aim of community ecology is to understand how local species diversity is shaped.
Agricultural activities are reshaping and filtering soil biodiversity and communities; however …

Within a landscape, multiple habitats exist for soil microbial communities. But how these
habitats shape community composition requires an understanding of the way in which …

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 …

Microbial species have different niche breadth, leading to distinct habitat ranges. Specialists
have narrow niche breadth and high habitat specificity in comparison with the generalists …

Soil microbes assemble in highly complex and diverse microbial communities, and microbial
diversity patterns and their drivers have been studied extensively. However, diversity …

The natural forest ecosystem in Eastern China, from tropical forest to boreal forest, has
declined due to cropland development during the last 300 years, yet little is known about the …

Background Soil microbial communities are in constant change at many different temporal
and spatial scales. However, the importance of these changes to the turnover of the soil …

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

Aim Organisms on our planet form spatially congruent and functionally distinct communities,
which at large geographical scales are called “biomes”. Understanding their pattern and …