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 …

The causes of biodiversity patterns are controversial and elusive due to complex
environmental variation, covarying changes in communities, and lack of baseline and null …

Soil microbial communities are highly spatially organized, shaped in part by the structure of
soil itself. Understanding how spatially discrete microbial communities change across years …

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 …

Despite the relevance of landscape, regarding the spatial patterning of microbial
communities and the relative influence of environmental parameters versus human …

Nearly all ecosystems host diverse microbiomes that support vital ecosystem processes. At
the same time, these ecosystems and their microbiomes are increasingly altered by human …

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

A core issue in microbial ecology is the need to elucidate the ecological processes and
underlying mechanisms involved in microbial community assembly. However, the extent to …

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

Simultaneously assessing shifts in microbial community composition along landscape and
depth gradients allows us to decouple correlations among environmental variables, thus …