Species diversification—the balance between speciation and extinction—is fundamental to
our understanding of how species richness varies in space and time and throughout the …

The term 'biodiversity,'while casually used in practice, is a complicated subject to measure,
interpret, contextualize, and compare. Yet the possible advent of deep-sea mining in the mid …

Microorganisms are the primary engines of biogeochemical processes and foundational to
the provisioning of ecosystem services to human society. Free‐living microbial communities …

Ecological and evolutionary processes simultaneously regulate microbial diversity, but the
evolutionary processes and their driving forces remain largely unexplored. Here we …

Revealing the mechanisms underlying soil microbial community assembly is a fundamental
objective in molecular ecology. However, despite increasing body of research on overall …

The crossing of environmental barriers poses major adaptive challenges. Rareness of
freshwater-marine transitions separates the bacterial communities, but how these are …

Common culturing techniques and priorities bias our discovery towards specific traits that
may not be representative of microbial diversity in nature. So far, these biases have not been …

Tiny ocean plankton (picoplankton) are fundamental for the functioning of the biosphere, but
the ecological mechanisms sha** their biogeography were partially understood …

Few aerobic hyperthermophilic microorganisms degrade polysaccharides. Here, we
describe the genome-enabled enrichment and optical tweezer-based isolation of an aerobic …

Toward the poles, life on land is increasingly dominated by microorganisms, yet the
evolutionary origin of polar microbiomes remains poorly understood. Here, we use …