Microbial communities are highly sensitive to environmental changes, yet their enormous diversity makes it difficult to ...

The field of microbial ecology has been revolutionized by metagenomics, the analysis of genomic data obtained from environmental samples. Whole-genome shotgun sequencing can both uncover the genomic ...

Microbial communities are highly sensitive to environmental changes, yet their enormous diversity makes it difficult to identify ecological patterns. A research team from the Leibniz Institute for ...

Soilless farming—a method of growing plants in a nutrient-rich solution rather than traditional soil—accounts for a ...

Albic soils are often compact, acidic, and low in organic matter, making them difficult to cultivate and limiting their ability to store carbon. A new ...