Phyllosphere or aerial surface of plants represents the globally largest and peculiar
microbial habitat that inhabits diverse and rich communities of bacteria, fungi, viruses …

Mountains are pivotal to maintaining habitat heterogeneity, global biodiversity, ecosystem
functions and services to humans. They have provided classic model natural systems for …

The ecology of forest soils is an important field of research due to the role of forests as
carbon sinks. Consequently, a significant amount of information has been accumulated …

The use of phylogenies in ecology is increasingly common and has broadened our
understanding of biological diversity. Ecological sub‐disciplines, particularly conservation …

The alpha diversity of ecologic communities is affected by many biotic and abiotic drivers
and, in turn, affects ecosystem functioning. Yet, patterns of alpha diversity in host-associated …

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

Hill numbers or the effective number of species are increasingly used to quantify species
diversity of an assemblage. Hill numbers were recently extended to phylogenetic diversity …

A major goal of microbial community ecology is to understand the forces that structure
community composition. Deterministic selection by specific environmental factors is …

The hypotheses that have been derived to explain the distribution, abundance, dynamics,
and diversity of species are typically tested using data matrices containing the names and …

Bacteria are essential parts of ecosystems and are the most diverse organisms on the
planet. Yet, we still do not know which habitats support the highest diversity of bacteria …