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

Local diversity (within-sample or alpha diversity) is often implicated as a cause of success or
failure of a microbial community. However, the relationships between diversity and emergent …

Biodiversity on the Earth is changing at an unprecedented rate due to a variety of global
change factors (GCFs). However, the effects of GCFs on microbial diversity is unclear …

酸杆菌是土壤中一类重要的细菌类群. 基于16S rRNA 基因序列分析发现,
酸杆菌一般占细菌总量的20% 左右, 甚至高达50% 以上, 表明酸杆菌在土壤生态过程中起到重要 …

Aboveground–belowground interactions exert critical controls on the composition and
function of terrestrial ecosystems, yet the fundamental relationships between plant diversity …

The surface of plant leaves, or the phyllosphere, harbors hyperdiverse microbial
communities. These communities mediate foliar functional traits, influence plant fitness, and …

The elevational patterns of diversity for plants and animals have been well established over
the past century. However, it is unclear whether there is a general elevational distribution …

Shifts in soil microbial communities over altitudinal gradients and the driving factors are
poorly studied. Their elucidation is indispensable to gain a comprehensive understanding of …

Microbial elevational diversity patterns have been extensively studied, but their shaping
mechanisms remain to be explored. Here, we examined soil bacterial and fungal diversity …

Background Viral metagenomics (viromics) is increasingly used to obtain uncultivated viral
genomes, evaluate community diversity, and assess ecological hypotheses. While viromic …