Soil bacterial communities play fundamental roles in ecosystem functioning and often
display a skewed distribution of abundant and rare taxa. So far, relatively little is known …

Bacteria are critical ecosystem drivers in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. However,
our understanding of the mechanisms generating and maintaining biodiversity on large …

Rare biosphere represents the majority of Earth's biodiversity and performs vital ecological
functions, yet little is known about its biogeographical patterns and community assembly …

The biogeography of soil bacterial communities has been well documented, yet the
associated difference in spatial distribution and drivers between abundant and rare bacteria …

The factors determining stochastic and deterministic processes that drive microbial
community structure, specifically the balance of abundant and rare bacterial taxa, remain …

Environmental heterogeneities in climate and soil properties have been recognized as key
factors structuring the bacterial community at large scale. Although recent evidence has …

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 …

Recent studies have shown distinct soil microbial assembly patterns across taxonomic
types, habitat types and regions, but little is known about which factors play a dominant role …

Aim The factors driving microbial community β‐diversity (variation in composition) at different
spatial scales yield fundamental insights into the mechanisms that maintain ecosystem …

Soil microbial biogeographical patterns have been widely explored from horizontal to
vertical scales. However, studies of microbial vertical distributions were still limited (eg, how …