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

Microplastics in the biosphere are currently of great environmental concern because of their
potential toxicity for aquatic biota and human health and association with pathogenic …

Background Freshwater salinization may result in significant changes of microbial
community composition and diversity, with implications for ecosystem processes and …

Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …

Revealing the linkages between community assembly and species coexistence, which is
crucial for the understanding of ecosystem diversity and functioning, is a fundamental but …

Soil communities are intricately linked to ecosystem functioning, and a predictive
understanding of how communities assemble in response to environmental change is of …

Understanding the community assembly mechanisms controlling biodiversity patterns is a
central issue in ecology. Although it is generally accepted that both deterministic and …

Permafrost, characterized by its frozen soil, serves as a unique habitat for diverse
microorganisms. Understanding these microbial communities is crucial for predicting the …

Studying within-species variation has traditionally been limited to culturable bacterial
isolates and low-resolution microbial community fingerprinting. Metagenomic sequencing …

Network analysis has been used for many years in ecological research to analyze
organismal associations, for example in food webs, plant-plant or plant-animal interactions …