Microbial ecology as a scientific field is fundamentally driven by technological advance. The past decade's revolution in DNA sequencing cost and throughput has made it possible for …
FT Maestre, Y Le Bagousse-Pinguet… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure …
Soils are the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. However, unlike for plants and animals, a global assessment of hotspots for soil nature conservation is still lacking. This hampers our …
S Jiao, Y Lu, G Wei - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Belowground biodiversity supports multiple ecosystem functions and services that humans rely on. However, there is a dearth of studies exploring the determinants of the biodiversity …
Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies challenging and hampers insights into the structure and function of microbial communities …
L Luan, Y Jiang, M Cheng, F Dini-Andreote… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Body size is a key life-history trait that influences community assembly by affecting how ecological processes operate at the organism level. However, the extent to which the …
K Bruce, RC Blackman, SJ Bourlat, M Hellström… - 2021 - repository.oceanbestpractices.org
This book represents a synthesis of knowledge and best practice in the field of DNA-based biomonitoring at the time of writing. It has been written with end-users of molecular tools in …
Background Agricultural food production is at the base of food and fodder, with fertilization having fundamentally and continuously increased crop yield over the last decades. The …
A central challenge in microbial ecology is to understand the underlying mechanisms driving community assembly, particularly in the continuum of species sorting and dispersal …