Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly.
However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists …

Background Dispersal plays a key role in shaping biological and ecological processes such
as the distribution of spatially-structured populations or the pace and scale of invasion. Here …

ABSTRACT A large number of descriptive surveys have shown that microbial communities
experience successional changes over time and that ecological dominance is common in …

Temporal variations in microbial metacommunity structure and assembly processes in
response to shifts in environmental conditions are poorly understood. Hence, we conducted …

With rapidly improving sequencing technologies, scientists have recently gained the ability
to examine diverse microbial communities at high genomic resolution, revealing that both …

Microbial communities comprise an interwoven matrix of biological diversity modified by
physical and chemical variation over space and time. Although these communities are the …

Despite numerous surveys of gene and species content in heterotrophic microbial
communities, such as those found in animal guts, oceans, or soils, it is still unclear whether …

Our knowledge on microbial biogeography depends on the way we define and study
diversity. In contrast to most microbes, some protist lineages have conspicuous structures …

Specialization and concomitant trade-offs are assumed to underlie the non-neutral
coexistence of lineages. Trade-offs across heterogeneous environments can promote …

Diversity begets higher-order properties such as functional stability and robustness in
microbial communities, but principles that inform conceptual (and eventually predictive) …