The role of soil biodiversity in regulating multiple ecosystem functions is poorly understood,
limiting our ability to predict how soil biodiversity loss might affect human wellbeing and …

Identifying the global drivers of soil priming is essential to understanding C cycling in
terrestrial ecosystems. We conducted a survey of soils across 86 globally-distributed locations, …

Belowground organisms play critical roles in maintaining multiple ecosystem processes,
including plant productivity, decomposition, and nutrient cycling. Despite their importance, …

The analysis of prey DNA in faeces is a non‐invasive approach to examine the diet of birds.
However, it is poorly known how gut transition time, environmental factors and laboratory …

Living organisms in aquatic ecosystems are almost constantly confronted by pathogens.
Nevertheless, very little is known about diseases of marine diatoms, the main primary producers …

Background Phytomyxids (plasmodiophorids and phagomyxids) are cosmopolitan, obligate
biotrophic protist parasites of plants, diatoms, oomycetes and brown algae. …

Background Little is known about the global distribution and environmental drivers of key
microbial functional traits such as antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Soils are one of Earth’s …

The importance of soil age as an ecosystem driver across biomes remains largely unresolved.
By combining a cross-biome global field survey, including data for 32 soil, plant, and …

Microbial biodeterioration of timber and woody material in buildings can cause costly
restoration procedures. Here, we focus on Serpula lacrymans (commonly known as dry-rot) the …

Human-induced global change is expected to amplify the disease risk for marine biota.
However, the role of disease in the rapid global decline of seagrass is largely unknown. Global …