Derek L. Sonderegger

TL;DR: Comparing 5,671 microbial cell and virus abundance estimates from 25 distinct marine surveys finds substantial variation in the virus-to-microbial cell ratio, in which a 10:1 model has either limited or no explanatory power.

TL;DR: The model suggests that ecosystems with viruses will have increased organic matter recycling, reduced transfer to higher trophic levels and increased net primary productivity, which supports hypotheses that viruses can have significant stimulatory effects across whole-ecosystem scales.

TL;DR: A study on the impacts of geography, material type, human interaction, location in a room, seasonal variation, and indoor and microenvironmental parameters on bacterial communities in offices finds that offices have city-specific bacterial communities, such that it can accurately predict which city an office microbiome sample is derived from, but office- specific bacterial communities are less apparent.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the usefulness of a derivative-based method for detecting ecological thresholds along a single explanatory variable, which is defined as a substantial change in a response variable given a marginal change in environmental conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, a ten-year ecological manipulation experiment in the Mojave Desert provides direct evidence that CO2 fertilization can substantially increase ecosystem carbon storage in arid ecosystems, which is a large source of uncertainty in the global carbon budget.