Many studies in soil microbial ecology are undertaken with a single sampling event, with the
influence of temporal progression rarely being considered. Under field conditions, soil …

© Higher Education Press 2019 t is a pleasure to contribute, with this editorial, to the first
issue of Soil Ecology Letters. My own interests in soil ecology lie in understanding the …

Investigating temporal variation in soil bacterial communities advances our fundamental
understanding of the causal processes driving biological variation, and how the composition …

The incredibly complex soil microbial communities at small scales make their analysis and
identification of reasons for the observed structures challenging. Microbial community …

Soil microbial communities are integrally involved in biogeochemical cycles and their
activities are crucial to the productivity of terrestrial ecosystems. Despite the importance of …

Although ongoing research has revealed some of the main drivers behind global spatial
patterns of microbial communities, spatio-temporal dynamics of these communities still …

A fieldwork was carried out in Caesarea sand dunes, Israel, to determine the influence of
fine-scale landscape-patch abiotic-factor heterogeneity on microbial activity in a …

The taxonomic and functional diversity of microbes in soil is stunning. Although they are
largely invisible to the naked eye, microbes are pervasive in nature and have a profound …

Compared to monocultures, multi‐species swards have demonstrated numerous positive
diversity effects on aboveground plant performance, such as yield, N concentration, and …

Simultaneously assessing shifts in microbial community composition along landscape and
depth gradients allows us to decouple correlations among environmental variables, thus …