Plant–soil feedback (PSF) is widely recognised as a driver of plant community composition,
but understanding of its response to drought remains in its infancy. Here, we provide a …

Background One promise of the recently presented microbiome definition suggested that, in
combination with unifying concepts and standards, microbiome research could be important …

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

Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. The vaginal
microbiome has been associated with PTB, yet the mechanisms underlying this association …

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

Irreversible climate change alters the decomposition and sequestration of soil carbon (C).
However, the stability of C components in soils with different initial organic matter contents …

Recent genomic analyses have revealed that microbial communities are predominantly
composed of persistent, sequence-discrete species and intraspecies units (genomovars) …

Measuring the growth rate of a microorganism is a simple yet profound way to quantify its
effect on the world. The absolute growth rate of a microbial population reflects rates of …

Both plants and their associated microbiomes can respond strongly to anthropogenic
environmental changes. These responses can be both ecological (eg a global change …

Soil microbes are essential for regulating carbon stocks under climate change. However, the
uncertainty surrounding how microbial temperature responses control carbon losses under …