Our ability to describe the highly diverse pool of low abundance populations present in
natural microbial communities is increasing at an unprecedented pace. Yet we currently lack …

Marine phytoplankton and zooplankton form the basis of the ocean's food-web, yet the
impacts of climate change on their biodiversity are poorly understood. Here, we use an …

Microbes drive most ecosystems and are modulated by viruses that impact their lifespan,
gene flow, and metabolic outputs. However, ecosystem-level impacts of viral community …

The ocean is home to myriad small planktonic organisms that underpin the functioning of
marine ecosystems. However, their spatial patterns of diversity and the underlying drivers …

How the coexistence of many species is maintained is a fundamental and unresolved
question in ecology. Coexistence is a puzzle because we lack a mechanistic understanding …

Highly diverse ecosystems exhibit a broad distribution of population sizes and species
turnover, where species at high and low abundances are exchanged over time. We show …

During the last decade, high‐throughput metabarcoding became routine for analyzing
protistan diversity and distributions in nature. Amid a multitude of exciting findings, scientists …

It has recently become apparent that the diversity of microbial life extends far below the
species level to the finest scales of genetic differences. Remarkably, extensive fine-scale …

The influential concept of the rare biosphere in microbial ecology has underscored the
importance of taxa occurring at low abundances yet potentially playing key roles in …

Marine microbial communities are highly interconnected assemblages of organisms shaped
by ecological drift, natural selection, and dispersal. The relative strength of these forces …