The microbiome is a complex and dynamic community of microorganisms that co-exist
interdependently within an ecosystem, and interact with its host or environment. Longitudinal …

Plant response to drought stress involves fungi and bacteria that live on and in plants and in
the rhizosphere, yet the stability of these myco-and micro-biomes remains poorly …

Complex systems are challenging to understand, especially when they defy manipulative
experiments for practical or ethical reasons. Several fields have developed parallel …

Heavy metal pollution affected the stability and function of soil ecosystem. The impact of
heavy metals on soil microbial community and the interaction of microbial community has …

Microbial community analysis via marker gene amplicon sequencing has become a routine
method in the field of soil research. In this perspective, we discuss technical challenges and …

Background Protists, single-celled eukaryotic organisms, are critical to food web ecology,
contributing to primary productivity and connecting small bacteria and archaea to higher …

Fitness equalizing mechanisms, such as trade-offs, are recognized as one of the main
factors promoting species coexistence in community ecology. However, they have rarely …

Longitudinal analysis of multivariate individual-specific microbiome profiles over time or
across conditions remains dauntin. Most statistical tools and methods that are available to …

Microbial eukaryotes (or protists) in marine ecosystems are a link between primary
producers and all higher trophic levels, and the rate at which heterotrophic protistan grazers …

Protists are integral to marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles; however, there is a
paucity of data describing specific ecological niches for some of the most abundant taxa in …