Our ability to describe the highly diverse pool of low abundance populations present in
natural microbial communities is increasing at an unprecedented pace. Yet we currently lack …

Blastocystis spp. is a unicellular organism that resides in digestive tract of various
vertebrates, with a worldwide distribution and a variable prevalence. For many years …

Background Myxobacteria are micropredators in the soil ecosystem with the capacity to
move and feed cooperatively. Some myxobacterial strains have been used to control soil …

Nematode predation plays an essential role in determining changes in the rhizosphere
microbiome. These changes affect the local nutrient balance and cycling of essential …

Bioremediation of soils polluted with petroleum compounds is a widely accepted
environmental technology. We compared the effects of biostimulation and bioaugmentation …

As important ecosystem engineers in soils, earthworms strongly influence carbon cycling
through their burrowing and feeding activities. Earthworms do not perform these roles in …

Microbial communities composed of few abundant and many rare species are widely
involved in the biogeochemical cycles of elements. Yet little is known about the ecological …

Most ecological communities harbor many rare species (ie, the rare biosphere), however,
relatively little is known about how distinct ecological processes structure their existence …

The effects of protists on an indigenous soil bacterial community, putative bacterial genes
involved in N-cycling, and the rice plant growth were studied in poultry litter biochar (PL) and …

Conversion from natural lands to cropland, primarily driven by agricultural expansion, could
significantly alter soil microbiome worldwide; however, influences of forest-to-cropland …