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

Although networks provide a powerful approach to study a large variety of ecological
systems, their formulation does not typically account for multiple interaction types …

Understanding the processes that are driving variation of natural microbial communities
across space or time is a major challenge for ecologists. Environmental conditions strongly …

Unraveling the drivers of community structure and succession in response to environmental
change is a central goal in ecology. Although the mechanisms sha** community structure …

The ability to predict microbial community dynamics lags behind the quantity of data
available in these systems. Most predictive models use only environmental parameters …

Considering it is common to find as much as 100-fold variation in the number of 16S rRNA
gene sequences across samples in a study, researchers need to control for the effect of …

Evaluating the quality of ecosystems in terms of biological patrimony and functioning is of
critical importance in the actual context of intensified human activities. Microbial diversity is …

Nestedness has been one of the most reported patterns of species distribution in
metacommunities as well as of species interactions in bipartite networks. We propose here a …

Biodiversity is important for many ecosystem processes. Global declines in pollinator
diversity and abundance have been recognized, raising concerns about a pollination crisis …

Microbial interactions are key to maintaining soil biodiversity. However, whether negative or
positive associations govern the soil microbial system at a global scale remains virtually …