Spatial partitioning in ecological communities has predominantly been described in two
dimensions, yet habitat is complex and 3D. Complex space use mediates community …

Forests acting as carbon storage and sequestration play an essential role in the global
nutrient cycle, in which fungi are active participants. The forests cover almost all regions from …

Microorganisms exist throughout the soil profile and those microorganisms living in deeper
soil horizons likely play key roles in regulating biogeochemical processes. However, the …

Soils harbor a vast diversity of soil microbiota, which play a crucial role in key ecosystem
processes such as litter transformation and mineralization, but how complex plant-soil …

Metal pollution has raised negative impact on microbes, but little is known about the
distribution and co-occurrence pattern of bacterial, fungal and archaeal communities along …

Soil protists play an essential role in shaping microbial community structure and soil nutrient
cycling. However, our understanding of land use effects on soil protists and their functions in …

The vast diversity of microalgae imposes the challenge of identifying them through the most
common and economical identification method, morphological identification, or through …

The floodplain ecosystem is crucial for facilitating or regulating regional ecological functions
(biodiversity conservation, contamination filtration, soil erosion prevention, flood control and …

Our current understanding suggests that nutrient management strategies applied to
agricultural soils over multiple years are required to cause major and stable shifts in soil …

The replacement of native birch with Norway spruce has been initiated in Norway to
increase long‐term carbon storage in forests. However, there is limited knowledge on the …