We review the biogeography of microorganisms in light of the biogeography of
macroorganisms. A large body of research supports the idea that free-living microbial taxa …

Diversity measurement is important for understanding community structure and dynamics,
but has been particularly challenging for microorganisms. Microbial community …

Soils harbor enormously diverse bacterial populations, and soil bacterial communities can
vary greatly in composition across space. However, our understanding of the specific …

Soil microbial communities are essential for ecosystem function, but linking community
composition to biogeochemical processes is challenging because of high microbial diversity …

Bacteria control major nutrient cycles and directly influence plant, animal and human health.
However, we know relatively little about the forces shaping their large‐scale ecological …

A central goal in ecology is to understand the spatial scaling of biodiversity. Patterns in the
spatial distribution of organisms provide important clues about the underlying mechanisms …

We examined variability in hierarchical beta diversity across ecosystems, geographical
gradients, and organism groups using multivariate spatial mixed modeling analysis of two …

Understanding the spatial patterns of organisms and the underlying mechanisms shaping
biotic communities is a central goal in community ecology. One of the most well documented …

The examination of correlates of diatom community structure has long been centred on local
environmental factors instead of broad-scale biogeographical factors largely because …

Members of the Planctomycetes, which were once thought to occur primarily in aquatic
environments, have been discovered in soils on five continents, revealing that these …