Fish communities face increasing anthropogenic pressures in freshwater and marine
ecosystems that modify their biodiversity and threaten the services they supply to human …

Phylosymbiosis was recently formulated to support a hypothesis-driven framework for the
characterization of a new, cross-system trend in host-associated microbiomes. Defining …

With the continual progress of sequencing techniques, genome-scale data are increasingly
used in phylogenetic studies. With more data from throughout the genome, the relationship …

Plant pathogenic bacteria cause high crop and economic losses to human societies,–.
Infections by such pathogens are challenging to control as they often arise through complex …

Most people can name a mammal or bird that has become extinct in recent centuries, but
few can name a recently extinct plant. We present a comprehensive, global analysis of …

Functional ecology is the branch of ecology that focuses on various functions that species
play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. This accessible guide offers the …

Plasmid persistence in bacterial populations is strongly influenced by the fitness effects
associated with plasmid carriage. However, plasmid fitness effects in wild-type bacterial …

For many species, geographical ranges are expanding toward the poles in response to
climate change, while remaining stable along range edges nearest the equator. Using long …

While it is known that interactions between plants and soil fungi drive many essential
ecosystem functions, considerable uncertainty exists over the drivers of fungal community …

Phylogenetic signal is the tendency for closely related species to display similar trait values
as a consequence of their phylogenetic proximity. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are …