Life can be stressful. One way to deal with stress is to simply wait it out. Microbes do this by
entering a state of reduced activity and increased resistance commonly called 'dormancy' …

Polar environments pose extreme challenges for life due to low temperatures, limited water,
high radiation, and frozen landscapes. Despite these harsh conditions, numerous macro …

Water is the cellular milieu, drives all biochemistry within Earth's biosphere and facilitates
microbe‐mediated decay processes. Instead of reviewing these topics, the current article …

Common culturing techniques and priorities bias our discovery towards specific traits that
may not be representative of microbial diversity in nature. So far, these biases have not been …

Some organisms in nature have developed the ability to enter a state of suspended
metabolism called cryptobiosis when environmental conditions are unfavorable. This state …

Abstract Knowledge about biodiversity changes during transitions from glacial landscape to
lake formation is limited to contemporary studies. Here, we combined analyses of lithology …

This study describes the composition and potential metabolic adaptation of microbial
communities in northeastern Siberia, a repository of the oldest permafrost in the Northern …

We present a comprehensive, customizable workflow for inferring prokaryotic phenotypic
traits from marker gene sequences and modelling the relationships between these traits and …

Arctic soil microbial communities may shift with increasing temperatures and water
availability from climate change. We examined temperature and volumetric liquid water …

Global climate warming is accelerating permafrost degradation. The large amounts of soil
organic matter in permafrost‐affected soils are prone to increased microbial decomposition …