It has become evident that aggregation or biofilm formation is an important survival
mechanism for bacteria in almost any environment. In this review, we summarize recent …

Ecologists have documented the process of plant succession for centuries, yet the
successional patterns exhibited by microbial communities have received relatively little …

Ecological succession and the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes are
two major themes within microbial ecology, but these conceptual domains have mostly …

Acute infections caused by pathogenic bacteria have been studied extensively for well over
100 years. These infections killed millions of people in previous centuries, but they have …

Although researchers have begun cataloging the incredible diversity of bacteria found in
soil, we are largely unable to interpret this information in an ecological context, including …

Soil microbes re-establish plant diversity and ecosystem functions after disturbance events.
Deterministic and stochastic processes are expected to contribute to microbial community …

Bacterial communities in the airways of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients are, as in other
ecological niches, influenced by autogenic and allogenic factors. However, our …

Plastics, when entering the environment, are immediately colonised by microorganisms.
This modifies their physico-chemical properties as well as their transport and fate in natural …

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 …

Ecologists have long studied primary succession, the changes that occur in biological
communities after initial colonization of an environment. Most of this work has focused on …