Anthropogenic disturbance in natural environments may cause unfavorable habitat
conditions in which old species are lost, or new species are introduced. These interventions …

Bioaugmentation is considered as a promising technology for cleanup of polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) from contaminated site soil, however, available high-efficiency …

Considering it is common to find as much as 100-fold variation in the number of 16S rRNA
gene sequences across samples in a study, researchers need to control for the effect of …

Virophages are small dsDNA viruses that hijack the machinery of giant viruses during the co-
infection of a protist (ie, microeukaryotic) host and represent an exceptional case of …

Plant invasion profoundly changes the microbial-driven processes in the ecosystem;
however, the seasonality of soil microbial communities and their assembly under plant …

Soil CH4 fluxes are driven by CH4-producing and-consuming microorganisms that
determine whether soils are sources or sinks of this potent greenhouse gas. To date, a …

Coastal wetlands are increasingly being converted into aquaculture ponds to meet growing
global demand for fish protein. Coastal wetlands conversion has been predicted to result in …

Peatlands have persisted as massive carbon sinks over millennia, even during past periods
of climate change. The commonly accepted theory of abiotic controls (mainly anoxia and low …

Pollution of soil environments with heavy metals (HMs) and rare earth elements (REEs)
cannot be ignored. We aimed to determine the effects of lead combined with lanthanum (Pb …

The size-plasticity hypothesis posits that larger size organisms are less plastic in their
metabolic rates and, therefore, are more strongly environmental-filtered than smaller …