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 …

This study provides the first maps of variations in bacterial community structure on a broad
scale based on genotyping of DNA extracts from 593 soils from four different regions of …

Aim The spatial organization of soil microbial communities on large scales and the
identification of environmental factors structuring their distribution have been little …

Microbial biogeography is the study of the distribution of microbial diversity on large scales
of space and time. This science aims at understanding biodiversity regulation and its link …

To better understand the relationship between soil bacterial communities, soil
physicochemical properties, land use and geographical distance, we considered for the first …

Bacteria have been inferred to exhibit relatively weak biogeographic patterns. To what
extent such findings reflect true biological phenomena or methodological artifacts remains …

Soils sustain an immense diversity of microbes, which, to a large extent, remains
unexplored. A range of novel methods, most of which are based on rRNA and rDNA …

Since the development of industrialization, urbanization and agriculture, soils have been
subjected to numerous variations in environmental conditions, which have resulted in …

Spatial scaling and determinism of the wide-scale distribution of macroorganism diversity
has been largely demonstrated over a century. For microorganisms, and especially for soil …

Microorganisms exist throughout the soil profile and those microorganisms living in sub-
surface horizons likely play key roles in nutrient cycling and soil formation. However, the …