Steven W. Kembel

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found correlations between bacterial community profiles and clinical disease markers in respiratory tracts of 45 children with cystic fibrosis and found that bacterial community complexity was inversely correlated with patient age, presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and antibiotic exposure, and was related to CF genotype.

TL;DR: This study reveals both the large variation in fine-root traits encountered globally and the relevance of several key plant functional types and soil and climate variables for explaining a substantial part of this variation.

TL;DR: Using ahistorical and phylogenetically independent contrast correlations, this work found no evidence of a root foraging scale‐precision trade‐off, mixed support for a relative growth rate‐Precision relationship, and no support for the widespread assumption that foraging precision increases the benefit gained from growth in heterogeneous soil.

TL;DR: It is indicated that humans have a guiding impact on the microbial biodiversity in buildings, both indirectly through the effects of architectural design on microbial community structure, and more directly through theeffects of human occupancy and use patterns on the microbes found in different spaces and space types.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that host species identity is a stronger driver of temperate tree phyllosphere bacterial communities than site or time.