(1) A technique of non-metric multidimensional scaling has been applied to the problem of constructing an objective species plexus, using data for the fifty most frequently occurring vascular plant ...

The effect of freeze-thaw (FT) cycles on Arctic tundra soil bacterial community was studied in laboratory microcosms. FT-induced changes to the bacterial community were followed over a 60-day period ...

Increasing evidence has emerged for non-random spatial distributions of microbes, but knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among ecosystems is lacking. For instance, ...