Mountains are pivotal to maintaining habitat heterogeneity, global biodiversity, ecosystem
functions and services to humans. They have provided classic model natural systems for …

Heterogeneity is a fundamental property of soil that is often overlooked in microbial ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that the heterogeneity of soil underpins the emergence and …

Climate change is altering the frequency and severity of drought events. Recent evidence
indicates that drought may produce legacy effects on soil microbial communities. However, it …

The life history strategies of soil microbes determine their metabolic potential and their
response to environmental changes. Yet these strategies remain poorly understood. Here …

Study of life history strategies may help predict the performance of microorganisms in nature
by organizing the complexity of microbial communities into groups of organisms with similar …

Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of drought events, affecting soil
functions including carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling, which are driven by growing …

Nutrient amendment diminished bacterial functional diversity, consolidating carbon flow
through fewer bacterial taxa. Here, we show strong differences in the bacterial taxa …

Microorganisms drive soil carbon mineralization and changes in their activity with increased
temperature could feedback to climate change. Variation in microbial biodiversity and the …

Background Linking the identity of wild microbes with their ecophysiological traits and
environmental functions is a key ambition for microbial ecologists. Of many techniques that …

The rate at which microorganisms grow and reproduce is fundamental to our understanding
of microbial physiology and ecology. While soil microbiologists routinely quantify soil …