Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly.
However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists …

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

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Accurate climate projections require an understanding of the effects of warming on
ecological communities and the underlying mechanisms that drive them,–. However, little is …

Background Chronic infection and concomitant airway inflammation is the leading cause of
morbidity and mortality for people living with cystic fibrosis (CF). Although chronic infection in …

The growing need for baseline data against which efforts to reduce the rate of biodiversity
loss can be judged highlights the importance of long-term datasets, some of which are as …

Ecologists have long studied the temporal dynamics of plant and animal communities with
much less attention paid to the temporal dynamics exhibited by microbial communities. As a …

Ecologists have documented the process of plant succession for centuries, yet the
successional patterns exhibited by microbial communities have received relatively little …

Microbial communities are responsible for biological treatment of many industrial
wastewater, but our knowledge of their diversity, assembly patterns, and function is still poor …

Understanding diversity and assembly patterns of microbial communities in activated sludge
(AS) is pivotal for addressing fundamental ecological questions and wastewater treatment …