Glaciers are retreating globally, and the resulting ice-free areas provide an experimental
system for understanding species colonization patterns, community formation, and …

Chronosequences and associated space‐for‐time substitutions are an important and often
necessary tool for studying temporal dynamics of plant communities and soil development …

Soil organic matter (SOM) and the carbon and nutrients therein drive fundamental
submicron-to global-scale biogeochemical processes and influence carbon-climate …

Many terrestrial surfaces, including soils, rocks and plants, are covered by photoautotrophic
communities, capable of synthesizing their own food from inorganic substances using …

Nitrogen (N) availability is thought to frequently limit terrestrial ecosystem processes, and
explicit consideration of N biogeochemistry, including biological N2 fixation, is central to …

Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive
synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between …

Background Paddy soil dissolved organic matter (DOM) represents a major hotspot for soil
biogeochemistry, yet we know little about its chemodiversity let alone the microbial …

Ecologists have documented the process of plant succession for centuries, yet the
successional patterns exhibited by microbial communities have received relatively little …

The succession of microbial community structure and function is a central ecological topic;
however, the mechanisms that underlie community assembly and promote temporal …

The mechanisms underlying community assembly and promoting temporal succession are
often overlooked in microbial ecology. Here, we studied an undisturbed salt marsh …