Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly.
However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists …

Microbes encompass tremendous biodiversity, provide support to all living forms, including
humans, and play an important role in many ecosystem services. The rules that govern …

Despite numerous surveys of gene and species content in heterotrophic microbial
communities, such as those found in animal guts, oceans, or soils, it is still unclear whether …

Microorganisms typically form diverse communities of interacting species, whose activities
have tremendous impact on the plants, animals and humans they associate with. The ability …

Microbial communities are enigmatically diverse. We propose a novel view of processes
likely affecting microbial assemblages, which could be viewed as the Great American …

Microbial communities play a major role in disease, biogeochemical cycling, agriculture, and
bioremediation. However, identifying the ecological processes that govern microbial …

Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

During recent years, many studies have shown that different processes including drift,
environmental selection and dispersal can be important for the assembly of bacterial …

Can differences in community assembly alter the relationship between biodiversity and
ecosystem function? Pholchan et al.(2013) used a variety of manipulations to change …

Microbial communities frequently invade one another as a whole, a phenomenon known as
community coalescence. Despite its potential importance for the assembly, dynamics, and …