Niche types and community assembly

J Davison, M Gerz, I Hiiesalu, M Moora… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of niche differentiation and biodiversity often focus on a few niche dimensions due to
the methodological challenge of describing hyperdimensional niche space. However, this …

Estuarine mangrove niches select cultivable heterotrophic diazotrophs with diverse metabolic potentials—a prospective cross-dialog for functional diazotrophy

S Mondal, B Biswas, R Chowdhury… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF), an unparalleled metabolic novelty among
living microorganisms on earth, globally contributes~ 88-101 Tg N year− 1 to natural …

[HTML][HTML] A global survey of host, aquatic, and soil microbiomes reveals shared abundance and genomic features between bacterial and fungal generalists

D Loos, AP da Costa Filho, BE Dutilh, AE Barber… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Environmental change, coupled with alteration in human lifestyles, is profoundly impacting
the microbial communities critical to the health of the Earth and its inhabitants. To identify …

Antarctic geothermal soils exhibit an absence of regional habitat generalist microorganisms

I McDonald, S Noell, J Abbaszadeh, H Richards… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Active geothermal systems are relatively rare in Antarctica and represent metaphorical
islands ideal to test microbial dispersal. In this study, we tested the macroecological concept …