Anaerobic digestion is a widely used technology for waste stabilization and generation of
biogas and has recently emerged as a potentially important process for the production of …

Unraveling the influence of community assembly processes on soil ecosystem functioning
presents a major challenge in the field of theoretical ecology, as it has received limited …

Mangroves, as a blue carbon reservoir, provide an environment for a variety of
microorganisms. Mangroves lie in special locations connecting coastal and estuarine areas …

Subsurface microbial community distribution patterns are influenced by biogeochemical and
groundwater fluxes and may inform hydraulic connections along groundwater-flow paths …

Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are an important biological component of the soil surface,
covering approximately 12% of the Earth's land surface. Although BSCs are closely related …

Association network approaches have recently been proposed as a means for exploring the
associations between bacterial communities. In the present study, high-throughput …

Although increasing number of studies have shown that microorganisms play important
roles in plant residue decomposition, an important process for crop productivity and soil …

Disturbance is known to affect the ecosystem structure, but predicting its outcomes remains
elusive. Similarly, community diversity is believed to relate to ecosystem functions, yet the …

Both 'species fitness difference'‐based deterministic processes, such as competitive
exclusion and environmental filtering, and 'species fitness difference'‐independent …

Free‐living and particle‐associated microbial communities play critical roles in nutrient
cycles in aquatic systems. However, little is known about their assembly process, function …