Their abundance and diversity help maintain a stable and healthy global ecosystem. However, if microbial diversity were to change, the ability of other organisms to respond to climate change may ...

the relationship between microbial diversity and multiple ecosystem functions and services (that is, multifunctionality) at the global scale has yet to be evaluated. Here we use two independent ...

This could mean we have vastly underestimated the total microbial diversity on Earth. Coral reefs make up less than 1 per cent of the ocean, yet are home to nearly a third of marine species of ...

“The degree of this spatial partitioning plays a critical role in maintaining the microbial community diversity,” You said. “And it could be that the optimal degree of partitioning also ...

The microbial world displays an immense taxonomic diversity. This diversity is manifested also in a multitude of metabolic pathways that can utilise different substrates and produce different ...

“Diversity of gut bacteria is declining with civilisation,” Michael Gillings of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, told the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in ...

Researchers conducted an eight-year experiment that found that climate warming played a predominant role in shaping microbial biodiversity, with significant negative effect. Researchers at the ...

Domeignoz-Horta and senior author Kristen DeAngelis at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that shifts in the diversity of soil microbial communities can change the soil's ability to ...

A new study suggests that eating human food reduces microbial diversity in the guts of wild bears. A recent study suggests that eating human food has a pronounced effect on the microbiome of black ...