Spatial distribution patterns across multiple microbial taxonomic groups.

TL;DR: This review summarizes key developments in deciphering and designing microbial communities using genome-scale metabolic models, outlining a framework for constructing community-level GEMs and highlighting future directions in integrating GEMs with quorum sensing and machine learning.

TL;DR: Heavy metal contamination affects water and sediment quality and negatively impacts microbial diversity. High heavy metal concentrations negatively impact the morphological characteristics of microorganisms.

TL;DR: This study investigates the impact of nitrogen fertilizer application on soil fungal diversity and maize yield in Shandong Province, China, finding optimal nitrogen application (80 kg ha−1) increases fungal diversity and yield, improving crop production and sustainability.

TL;DR: Recent decades have seen significant advances in understanding soil microbial communities (SMCs) in agroecosystems, leveraging high-throughput methods to elucidate their distribution, functions, and responses to environmental factors, with implications for sustainable agricultural practices and ecosystem resilience.

TL;DR: RDP now includes a collection of fungal large subunit rRNA genes, and most tools are now available as open source packages for download and local use by researchers with high-volume needs or who would like to develop custom analysis pipelines.

TL;DR: Recent progress in understanding belowground biodiversity and its role in determining the ecological and evolutionary responses of terrestrial ecosystems to current and future environmental change are reviewed.

TL;DR: Current evidence confirms that, as proposed by the Baas-Becking hypothesis, 'the environment selects' and is, in part, responsible for spatial variation in microbial diversity, but recent studies also dispute the idea that 'everything is everywhere'.

TL;DR: For kelp holdfast assemblages from New Zealand, variation in species composition was greater in smaller holdfasts, while variation in relative abundances was great in larger holdasts, regardless of the measure used.