Environmental resource management

Bacteria

Microbial population biology

Biology

Physical geography

Biosphere

Glacier

Habitat

Geography

Ecology

Community

Environmental science

Genetics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Microbial communities are found throughout the biosphere, from human guts to glaciers, from soil to activated sludge. Understanding the statistical properties of such diverse communities can pave the way to elucidate the common mechanisms ...Multiple ecological forces act together to shape the composition of microbial communities. Phyloecology approaches—which combine phylogenetic relationships between species with community ecology—have the potential to disentangle such forces but are often ...

No reason to expect large and consistent effects of nudge interventions