Environmental degradation may have strong effects on community assembly processes. We examined the assembly of bacterial and fungal communities in anthropogenically altered and near-pristine streams.
Bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) are an ecologically and evolutionarily diversified group with an unexplored skin microbiome. The bat skin microbiome could play a role in disease resistance, for example to
This study provides basic reference data for investigations of the gut microbiota community structure of wild birds and deepens our understanding of the dynamics of the gut microflora during raptor de