Microorganisms have a pivotal role in the functioning of ecosystems. Recent studies have
shown that microbial communities harbour keystone taxa, which drive community …

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

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an important component of soil ecosystems, and soils are a
hotbed of microorganisms playing critical roles in soil functions and ecosystem services …

A growing body of evidence suggests that microbial α-diversity (local species richness) may
have positive effects on ecosystem function. However, less attention has been paid to β …

Increasing wildfire severity, which is common throughout the western United States, can
have deleterious effects on plant regeneration and large impacts on carbon (C) and nitrogen …

Belowground microbial communities strongly influence ecosystem function such that
predicting function may rely on understanding ecological processes that assemble …

Soil aggregates provide spatially heterogeneous microenvironments for soil microbiome
and ecological processes. Revealing the nuances of assembly processes in aggregates is …

Hydrodynamics drives both stochastic and deterministic community assembly in aquatic
habitats, by translocating microbes across geographic barriers and generating changes in …

Soil microbial community assembly is crucial for understanding the mechanisms of microbial
communities that regulate ecosystem-level functioning. The relative contributions of …

Microorganisms play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem stability. The last two decades
have witnessed an upsurge in studies on marine microbial community composition using …