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 …

Terrestrial plants including forest trees are generally known to live in close association with
microbial organisms. The inherent features of this close association can be commensalism …

A central challenge in ecology is to understand the relative importance of processes that
shape diversity patterns. Compared with aboveground biota, little is known about spatial …

Global species richness patterns of soil micro‐organisms remain poorly understood
compared to macro‐organisms. We use a global analysis to disentangle the global …

The Amazon basin harbors a diverse ecological community that has a critical role in the
maintenance of the biosphere. Although plant and animal communities have received much …

Dispersal plays a prominent role in most conceptual models of community assembly.
However, direct measurement of dispersal across a whole community is difficult at …

Knowledge of spatiotemporal patterns in species distribution is fundamental to
understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes sha** communities. The …

Dark septate endophytes (DSEs) comprise a diverse and ubiquitous group of fungal
generalists with broad habitat niches that robustly colonize the roots of plants in stressful …

Biogeography of ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with alders (Alnus spp.) in relation to biotic
and abiotic variables at the glo Page 1 Biogeography of ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with …

Root endophytic fungi are found in a great variety of plants and ecosystems, but the
ecological drivers of their biogeographic distribution are poorly understood. Here, we …