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

The antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis is the increasing global incidence of infectious
diseases affecting the human population, which are untreatable with any known …

Permafrost degradation may induce soil carbon (C) loss, critical for global C cycling, and be
mediated by microbes. Despite larger C stored within the active layer of permafrost regions …

Scaling laws underpin unifying theories of biodiversity and are among the most predictively
powerful relationships in biology. However, scaling laws developed for plants and animals …

Ecological community assembly is governed by a combination of (i) selection resulting from
among-taxa differences in performance;(ii) dispersal resulting from organismal movement; …

The alpha diversity of ecologic communities is affected by many biotic and abiotic drivers
and, in turn, affects ecosystem functioning. Yet, patterns of alpha diversity in host-associated …

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

Fungi are among the most diverse and ecologically important kingdoms in life. However, the
distributional ranges of fungi remain largely unknown as do the ecological mechanisms that …

Documenting the diversity of marine life is challenging because many species are cryptic,
small, and rare, and belong to poorly known groups. New sequencing technologies …

Recently, microbiologists have established the existence of biogeographic patterns among a
wide range of microorganisms. The focus of the field is now shifting to identifying the …