Even though recent studies have clarified the influence and hierarchy of environmental
filters on bacterial community structure, those constraining bacterial populations variations …

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

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

To better understand the relationship between soil bacterial communities, soil
physicochemical properties, land use and geographical distance, we considered for the first …

Although widely used in ecology, comparative analyses of diversity and niche properties are
still lacking for microorganisms, especially focusing on niche variations. Quantifying the …

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

Bacterial communities are important for the health and productivity of soil ecosystems and
have great potential as novel indicators of environmental perturbations. To assess how they …

Little is known about abundances of the major bacterial taxa in agricultural soils and how
they are affected by fertilization or other agricultural practices. Our aim was to determine the …

Microbial communities in soil provide a wide range of ecosystem services. On the small
scale, nutrient rich hotspots in soil developed from the activities of animals or plants are …

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 …