Despite accounting for a significant portion of the Earth's prokaryotic biomass, controls on
the abundance and biodiversity of microorganisms residing in the continental subsurface …

Recently, microbiologists have established the existence of biogeographic patterns among a
wide range of microorganisms. The focus of the field is now shifting to identifying the …

Revealing the linkages between community assembly and species coexistence, which is
crucial for the understanding of ecosystem diversity and functioning, is a fundamental but …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Increasing evidence has emerged for non-random spatial distributions of microbes, but
knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among …

The factors driving β-diversity (variation in community composition) yield insights into the
maintenance of biodiversity on the planet. Here we tested whether the mechanisms that …

The existence of biogeographic patterns among most free-living microbial taxa has been
well established, yet little is known about the underlying mechanisms that shape these …

A central challenge in ecology is to understand the relative importance of processes that
shape diversity patterns. Compared with aboveground biota, little is known about spatial …

In a context of global changes, and amidst the perpetual modification of community structure
undergone by most natural ecosystems, it is more important than ever to understand how …

The study of elevational diversity gradients dates back to the foundation of biogeography.
Although elevational patterns of plant and animal diversity have been studied for centuries …