Highlights•We detail how the application of metagenomics has changed research in extreme
environments.•We focus on microbial functionality under environmental extremes.•We …

Recent advances in knowledge of patterns of biogeography in terrestrial eukaryotic
organisms have led to a fundamental paradigm shift in understanding of the controls and …

Vegetation restoration has been widely used in karst rocky desertification (KRD) areas of
southwestern China, but the response of microbial community to revegetation has not been …

Background Antarctica and its unique biodiversity are increasingly at risk from the effects of
global climate change and other human influences. A significant recent element …

Abstract Background The Antarctic continent is considered the coldest and driest place on
earth with simple ecosystems, devoid of higher plants. Soils in the ice-free regions of …

In the permafrost region of northeastern China, vegetation and soil environment have
showed response to permafrost degradation triggered by global warming, but the …

Our current understanding of Antarctic soils is derived from direct culture on selective media,
biodiversity studies based on clone library construction and analysis, quantitative PCR …

In the Tibetan permafrost region, vegetation types and soil properties have been affected by
permafrost degradation, but little is known about the corresponding patterns of their soil …

This study assessed the diversity and composition of bacterial communities in four different
soils (human-, penguin-, seal-colony impacted soils and pristine soil) in the Fildes Region …

Metabolic plasticity and functional redundancy are fundamental properties of microbial
communities, which shape their response to environmental forcing, and also mediate the …