There has been a recent explosion of research within the field of microbial ecology that has
been fueled, in part, by methodological improvements that make it feasible to characterize …

Macroecology is the study of the mechanisms underlying general patterns of ecology across
scales. Research in microbial ecology and macroecology have long been detached. Here …

Macroecology examines the relationship between organisms and their environment at large
spatial (and temporal) scales. Typically, macroecologists explain the large‐scale patterns of …

Microbial communities play a major role in disease, biogeochemical cycling, agriculture, and
bioremediation. However, identifying the ecological processes that govern microbial …

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

INTRODUCTION reductions in sequencing costs, and the coevolution of computational tools
to process the ever-increasing amount of data, the field of metagenomics was “born”(11) …

Microbial ecology provides insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of
microbial communities underpinning every ecosystem on Earth. Microbial communities can …

Introduction Rapidly advancing technologies and accumulating information about microbial
communities across the globe allow the quantification of microbial properties and functions …

The ecological and evolutionary study of community formation, diversity, and stability is
rooted in general theory and reinforced by decades of system-specific empirical work …

Microbes encompass tremendous biodiversity, provide support to all living forms, including
humans, and play an important role in many ecosystem services. The rules that govern …