Microbial communities play important roles in soil health, contributing to processes such as
the turnover of organic matter and nutrient cycling. As soil edaphic properties such as …

Microplastics provide a unique habitat for microorganisms, forming the plastisphere. Yet the
ecology of the plastisphere, including the microbial composition, functions, assembly …

Body size is a key life-history trait that influences community assembly by affecting how
ecological processes operate at the organism level. However, the extent to which the …

Exploiting the potential benefits of plant-associated microbes represents a sustainable
approach to enhancing crop productivity. Plant-beneficial bacteria (PBB) provide multiple …

Bacterial communities in soil play a key role in carbon (C) and nutrient cycling. Unravelling
how bacterial community assemble and distribute with soil depth is a prerequisite for …

Phytopathogenic fungi threaten global food security but the ecological drivers of their global
diversity and biogeography remain unknown. Here, we construct and analyse a global atlas …

Soil microbial community assembly is crucial for understanding the mechanisms of microbial
communities that regulate ecosystem-level functioning. The relative contributions of …

Uneven-aged silvicultural practices can maintain habitat continuity and enhance
biodiversity. Soil microorganisms play critical roles in multiple ecosystem functions (ie …

Aim Ecological communities that exist closer together in space are generally more
compositionally similar than those far apart, as defined by the distance–decay of similarity …

The increasing application of plastic film has caused the “white pollution” of farmlands in
greenhouses. To date, most studies on the ecology of the plastisphere have focused on the …