Microbial communities are at the heart of all ecosystems, and yet microbial community
behavior in disturbed environments remains difficult to measure and predict. Understanding …

A leading idea about how disturbances and other environmental fluctuations affect species
diversity is the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH). The IDH states that diversity of …

Phytoremediation is a promising technology to clean-up contaminated soils based on the
synergistic actions of plants and microorganisms. However, to become a widely accepted …

Deterministic niche‐based processes have been proposed to explain species relative
abundance within communities but lead to different predictions: habitat filtering (HF) predicts …

Phytoremediation is an attractive alternative to excavating and chemically treating
contaminated soils. Certain plants can directly bioremediate by sequestering and/or …

Understanding the relationship between disturbance regimes and species diversity has
been of central interest to ecologists for decades. For example, the intermediate disturbance …

Increased exploration and exploitation of resources in the Arctic is leading to a higher risk of
petroleum contamination. A number of Arctic microorganisms can use petroleum for growth …

The “intermediate disturbance hypothesis” and the “intermediate productivity hypothesis”
have been widely recognized concepts for explaining patterns of species diversity for the …

Laboratory microcosm experiments using protists as model organisms have a long tradition
and are widely used to investigate general concepts in population biology, community …

Macroecology is the study of the mechanisms underlying general patterns of ecology across
scales. Research in microbial ecology and macroecology have long been detached. Here …