Microbial diversity in extreme environments

WS Shu, LN Huang - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa,
survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity …

[HTML][HTML] Scientists' warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

R Cavicchioli, WJ Ripple, KN Timmis, F Azam… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In the Anthropocene, in which we now live, climate change is impacting most life on Earth.
Microorganisms support the existence of all higher trophic life forms. To understand how …

Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

MM Yuan, X Guo, L Wu, YA Zhang, N **ao… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Unravelling the relationships between network complexity and stability under changing
climate is a challenging topic in theoretical ecology that remains understudied in the field of …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle

MA Moran, EB Kujawinski, WF Schroer, SA Amin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
One-quarter of photosynthesis-derived carbon on Earth rapidly cycles through a set of short-
lived seawater metabolites that are generated from the activities of marine phytoplankton …

Stochastic processes shape microeukaryotic community assembly in a subtropical river across wet and dry seasons

W Chen, K Ren, A Isabwe, H Chen, M Liu, J Yang - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background The deep mechanisms (deterministic and/or stochastic processes) underlying
community assembly are a central challenge in microbial ecology. However, the relative …

Temporal variability in quantitative human gut microbiome profiles and implications for clinical research

D Vandeputte, L De Commer, RY Tito… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
While clinical gut microbiota research is ever-expanding, extending reference knowledge of
healthy between-and within-subject gut microbiota variation and its drivers remains …

Rhizosphere bacteriome structure and functions

N Ling, T Wang, Y Kuzyakov - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial composition and functions in the rhizosphere—an important microbial hotspot—
are among the most fascinating yet elusive topics in microbial ecology. We used 557 pairs of …

Open challenges for microbial network construction and analysis

K Faust - The ISME Journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Microbial network construction is a popular explorative data analysis technique in
microbiome research. Although a large number of microbial network construction tools has …

Major restructuring of marine plankton assemblages under global warming

F Benedetti, M Vogt, UH Elizondo, D Righetti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Marine phytoplankton and zooplankton form the basis of the ocean's food-web, yet the
impacts of climate change on their biodiversity are poorly understood. Here, we use an …