The plant-associated microbiome is a key component of plant systems, contributing to their
health, growth, and productivity. The application of machine learning (ML) in this field …

Ecological forecasting provides a powerful set of methods for predicting short‐and long‐term
change in living systems. Forecasts are now widely produced, enabling proactive …

The interactions between sugar maple (Acer saccharum, Marshall) and its microbial
communities are important for tree fitness, growth, and establishment. Despite recent …

Soil bacterial communities are essential for ecosystem function, yet their response along
altitudinal gradients in different soil strata remains unclear. Understanding bacterial …

Understanding the interactions between plant and soil microbial diversity is crucial for
predicting ecosystem responses to environmental changes. While the individual roles of …

Background Activated sludge (AS) of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is one of the
world's largest artificial microbial ecosystems and the microbial community of the AS system …

Within a landscape, multiple habitats exist for soil microbial communities. But how these
habitats shape community composition requires an understanding of the way in which …

Efforts to catalog global biodiversity have often focused on aboveground taxonomic
diversity, with limited consideration of belowground communities. However, diversity …

Thinning is an important forest management practice to mitigate the adverse effects of
increased drought on tree growth and productivity. However, the responses of the soil …

Introduction Soil microorganisms are the key factors in elucidating the effects of thinning on
tree growth performance, but the effects of vegetation and soil on the species composition …