Trait-based approaches are increasingly gaining importance in community ecology, as a way of finding general rules for the mechanisms driving changes in community structure and function under the infl
Estuarine sediment sample collected during peak seasonal anoxia from Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, station CB3.3C with euxinic bottom water, oxygen near or below detection
Most ecological research on hypoliths, significant primary producers in hyperarid deserts, has focused on the diversity of individual groups of microbes (i.e. bacteria). However, microbial communiti
Synthetic microbial ecology has the potential to enhance the productivity and resiliency of biotechnology processes compared to approaches using single isolates. Engineering microbial consortia is cha
