Water is one of the most important bacterial habitats on Earth. As such, water represents
also a major way of dissemination of bacteria between different environmental …

The classical view states that microbial biogeography is not affected by dispersal barriers or
historical events, but only influenced by the local contemporary habitat conditions (species …

Glacier-fed aquatic ecosystems provide habitats for diverse and active bacterial
communities. However, the environmental vulnerabilities of co-existing water and sediment …

This study describes and validates a new method for metagenomic biomarker discovery by
way of class comparison, tests of biological consistency and effect size estimation. This …

Although the health of rivers is threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors with
increasing frequency, it remains an open question how riverine microbial communities …

The response of microbial communities to long-term environmental change is poorly
understood. Here, we study bacterioplankton communities in a unique system of coastal …

A wide array of microorganisms survive and thrive in extreme environments. However, we
know little about the patterns of, and controls over, their large-scale ecological distribution …

Bacteria inhabiting boreal freshwaters are part of metacommunities where local
assemblages are often linked by the flow of water in the landscape, yet the resulting spatial …

Microbial ecology is the study of interactions among microbes in natural environments and
their roles in biogeochemical cycles, food web dynamics, and the evolution of life. Microbes …

The gut microorganisms in some animals are reported to include a core microbiota of
consistently associated bacteria that is ecologically distinctive and may have coevolved with …