Soil microorganisms are clearly a key component of both natural and managed ecosystems.
Despite the challenges of surviving in soil, a gram of soil can contain thousands of individual …

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) represents a promising technology for
wastewater nitrogen removal. Organics management is critical to achieving efficient and …

Unravelling the relationships between network complexity and stability under changing
climate is a challenging topic in theoretical ecology that remains understudied in the field of …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to DNA that can be extracted from environmental
samples (such as soil, water, feces, or air) without the prior isolation of any target organism …

Communities of soil microorganisms (soil microbiomes) play a major role in biogeochemical
cycles and support of plant growth. Here we focus primarily on the roles that the soil …

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 …

Biological nitrogen fixation contributes to the pool of plant-available N in both bulk soil and
the rhizosphere. Here we investigated the co-association and assemblage process of …

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 …

Resource competition and metabolic cross-feeding are among the main drivers of microbial
community assembly. Yet the degree to which these two conflicting forces are reflected in …

Over the last two decades, a considerable effort has been made to decipher the
biogeography of soil microbial communities as a whole, from small to broad scales. In …