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

Marine microbial communities are engines of globally important processes, such as the
marine carbon, nitrogen and sulphur cycles. Recent data on the structures of these …

The existence of biogeographic patterns among most free-living microbial taxa has been
well established, yet little is known about the underlying mechanisms that shape these …

Microbial ecology is currently undergoing a revolution, with repercussions spreading
throughout microbiology, ecology and ecosystem science. The rapid accumulation of …

The study of elevational diversity gradients dates back to the foundation of biogeography.
Although elevational patterns of plant and animal diversity have been studied for centuries …

Ecologists have long studied the temporal dynamics of plant and animal communities with
much less attention paid to the temporal dynamics exhibited by microbial communities. As a …

Understanding diversity and assembly patterns of microbial communities in activated sludge
(AS) is pivotal for addressing fundamental ecological questions and wastewater treatment …

Abstract Analysis of patterns in the distribution of taxa can provide important insights into
ecological and evolutionary processes. Microbial biogeographic patterns almost always …

Species spatial turnover, or β‐diversity, induces a decay of community similarity with
geographic distance known as the distance–decay relationship. Although this relationship is …

Microbes and microbiology are seldom encountered in philosophical accounts of the life
sciences. Although microbiology is a well-established science and microbes the basis of life …