Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

Recently, microbiologists have established the existence of biogeographic patterns among a
wide range of microorganisms. The focus of the field is now shifting to identifying the …

Revealing the linkages between community assembly and species coexistence, which is
crucial for the understanding of ecosystem diversity and functioning, is a fundamental but …

The microbial colonization profiles on microplastics (MPs) in marine environments have
recently sparked global interest. However, many studies have characterized plastisphere …

Background Soil microbiomes play an important role in the services and functioning of
terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known of their vertical responses to restoration …

Background The relative importance of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial
communities is unclear, as are the possible influences that alter the balance between these …

The interspecies exchange of metabolites plays a key role in the spatiotemporal dynamics of
microbial communities. This raises the question of whether ecosystem-level behavior of …

Despite recognition of the importance of soil bacteria to terrestrial ecosystem functioning
there is little consensus on the factors regulating belowground biodiversity. Here we present …

Background Preclinical and clinical evidence supports the concept of bidirectional brain-gut
microbiome interactions. We aimed to determine if subgroups of irritable bowel syndrome …

Continent‐scale biogeography has been extensively studied in soils and marine systems,
but little is known about biogeographical patterns in non‐marine sediments. We used …