While the effects of habitat size and isolation have been successfully studied for macro‐
organisms, there is currently debate about their relative importance in explaining patterns of …

Dispersal limitation plays an important role in a number of equilibrium and nonequilibrium
theories about community ecology. In this study we use the framework of island …

Microbial ecology has made large advances over the last decade, mostly because of
improvements in molecular analysis techniques that have enabled the detection and …

Summary 1 Ectomycorrhizal fungi are spatially associated with established ectomycorrhizal
vegetation, but the influence of distance from established vegetation on the presence …

Global species richness patterns of soil micro‐organisms remain poorly understood
compared to macro‐organisms. We use a global analysis to disentangle the global …

Dispersal plays a prominent role in most conceptual models of community assembly.
However, direct measurement of dispersal across a whole community is difficult at …

Exploring the link between above‐and belowground biodiversity has been a major theme of
recent ecological research, due in large part to the increasingly well‐recognized role that …

Despite recent advances in understanding community ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi, little
is known about their spatial patterning and the underlying mechanisms driving these …

Evidence suggests that microbial communities show patterns of spatial scaling which can be
driven by geographical distance and environmental heterogeneity. Here we demonstrate …

The mechanisms regulating community composition and local dominance of trees in species-
rich forests are poorly resolved, but the importance of interactions with soil microbes is …