Mountains are pivotal to maintaining habitat heterogeneity, global biodiversity, ecosystem
functions and services to humans. They have provided classic model natural systems for …

A decade after environmental scientists integrated high‐throughput sequencing
technologies in their toolbox, the genomics‐based monitoring of anthropogenic impacts on …

Deciphering microbiota functions is crucial to predict ecosystem sustainability in response to
global change. High-throughput sequencing at the individual or community level has …

Smallholder agroecosystems play a key role in the world's food security providing more than
50% of the food produced globally. These unique agroecosystems face a myriad of …

Soil priming is a microbial‐driven process, which determines key soil–climate feedbacks in
response to fresh carbon inputs. Despite its importance, the microbial traits behind this …

The status of plant and microbial nutrient limitation have profound impacts on ecosystem
carbon cycle in permafrost areas, which store large amounts of carbon and experience …

Profiling the 16S-rRNA gene is a common method in microbial ecology to provide estimates
of microbial diversity and abundance, but it cannot directly produce information about the …

Functional traits are measurable characteristics that affect an organism's fitness under
certain environmental conditions. The use of functional traits in microbial ecology holds …

Organic agriculture, employing manures or composts, has been proposed as a way of
mitigating undesirable impacts of mineral fertilizer use. Of particular interest is the effect of …

Ecosystem functions are threatened by both recurrent droughts and declines in biodiversity
at a global scale, but the drought dependency of diversity-productivity relationships remains …