Advances in next-generation sequencing have enabled the widespread measurement of
microbiome composition across systems and over the course of microbiome assembly …

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

Global warming and the loss of biodiversity through human activities (eg, land-use change,
pollution, invasive species) are two of the most profound threats to the functional integrity of …

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

The order and timing of species immigration during community assembly can affect species
abundances at multiple spatial scales. Known as priority effects, these effects cause …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

The way species affect one another in ecological communities often depends on the order of
species arrival. The magnitude of such historical contingency, known as priority effects …

Soil ecosystems worldwide are subjected to marked modifications caused by anthropogenic
disturbances and global climate change, resulting in microbial diversity loss and alteration of …

Why some clades are more species-rich than others is a central question in macroevolution.
Most hypotheses explaining exceptionally diverse clades involve the emergence of an …

Ecologists have long been interested in how communities change over time. Addressing
questions about community dynamics requires ways of representing and comparing the …