The study of microbial diversity represents a major opportunity for advances in biology and
biotechnology. Recent progress in molecular microbial ecology shows that the extent of …

Microbial ecology examines the diversity and activity of micro‐organisms in Earth's
biosphere. In the last 20 years, the application of genomics tools have revolutionized …

A central goal in ecology is to understand the spatial scaling of biodiversity. Patterns in the
spatial distribution of organisms provide important clues about the underlying mechanisms …

A comparison of testate amoebae assemblages from the Arctic and Antarctic (areas of
similar habitat a maximum distance apart) is used to try and answer the question 'What is the …

Biogeography is a research programme with one aim, namely to'discover why organisms
are distributed the way they are today'(Platnick & Nelson, 1978: 1) by uncovering …

Aim The spatial organization of soil microbial communities on large scales and the
identification of environmental factors structuring their distribution have been little …

The study of elevational diversity gradients dates back to the foundation of biogeography.
Although elevational patterns of plant and animal diversity have been studied for centuries …

Niches are spaces for the biological units of selection, from cells to complex communities. In
a broad sense,“species” are biological units of individuation. Niches do not exist without …

Recent discoveries of geographical patterns in microbial distribution are undermining
microbiology's exclusively ecological explanations of biogeography and their fundamental …

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