Microbial communities are at the heart of all ecosystems, and yet microbial community
behavior in disturbed environments remains difficult to measure and predict. Understanding …

Soil is increasingly under environmental pressures that alter its capacity to fulfil essential
ecosystem services. To maintain these crucial soil functions, it is important to know how soil …

Although interactions between plants and microbes at the plant–soil interface are known to
be important for plant nutrient acquisition, relatively little is known about how root exudates …

Our daily life depends on many services delivered by the planet's ecosystems. Groundwater
ecosystems deliver services that are of immense societal and economic value, such as: 1) …

Resilience is the central concept for understanding how an ecosystem responds to a strong
perturbation, and is related to other concepts used to analyze system properties in the face …

Groundwater ecosystems offer vast and complex habitats for diverse microbial communities.
Here we review the current status of groundwater microbial biodiversity research with a …

We study a reference model in theoretical ecology, the disordered Lotka-Volterra model for
ecological communities, in the presence of finite demographic noise. Our theoretical …

Soil and soil biodiversity play critical roles in Nature's Contributions to People (NCP)# 10,
defined as Nature's ability to regulate direct detrimental effects on humans, and on human …

Assessing the ecological impacts of environmental change requires knowledge of the
relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The exact nature of this …

For lake microbes, water column mixing acts as a disturbance because it homogenizes
thermal and chemical gradients known to define the distributions of microbial taxa. Our first …