Across the tree of life, populations have evolved the capacity to contend with suboptimal
conditions by engaging in dormancy, whereby individuals enter a reversible state of reduced …

Despite the recent increase in knowledge concerning microorganisms, the processes
determining their global distribution and functioning have not been disentangled. Microbial …

As central members of soil trophic networks, viruses have the potential to drive substantial
microbial mortality and nutrient turnover. Pinpointing viral contributions to terrestrial …

Viruses shape microbial communities, food web dynamics, and carbon and nutrient cycling
in diverse ecosystems. However, little is known about the patterns and drivers of viral …

Desert soils harbour diverse communities of aerobic bacteria despite lacking substantial
organic carbon inputs from vegetation. A major question is therefore how these communities …

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 …

Understanding biogeographical patterns and underlying processes of belowground
community assembly is crucial for predicting soil functions and their responses to global …

Dispersal is a fundamental community assembly process that maintains soil microbial
biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales, yet the impact of dispersal on ecosystem …

Because of land use changes, a worldwide decrease in biodiversity is underway, mostly
driven by habitat degradation and fragmentation. Increasing landscape connectivity (ie the …

The measurement of uncharacterized pools of biological molecules through techniques
such as metabarcoding, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metabolomics, and …