Microbial communities assemble through a dynamic interplay of deterministic and stochastic forces that shape their composition, structure and function across diverse habitats. Deterministic ...

Natural riverine and aquatic ecosystems harbor diverse and dynamic microbial communities that are central to biogeochemical cycling, organic matter ...

The holobiont paradigm finally recognizes that macroorganism development and health, like all other natural ecosystems, are influenced by the diverse microbial communities they host. However, ...

A flagship seven-year study that explores how environmental stresses influence different ecological processes shaping the composition and structure of microbial communities in groundwater has now been ...

Using five distinct tea cultivars, researchers combined metabolomic profiling, metagenomics, and machine learning to identify eight key microbial genes associated with leaf secondary compounds, ...

Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern scientists have suspected there is more to the story of how microbial ...