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  1. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster lives in natural habitats and has also long been used as a model organism in biological research. In this study, we used a molecular barcoding approach to analyse the airways...

    Authors: Hanna Angstmann, Stefan Pfeiffer, Susanne Kublik, Birte Ehrhardt, Karin Uliczka, Klaus F. Rabe, Thomas Roeder, Christina Wagner, Michael Schloter and Susanne Krauss-Etschmann
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:55
  2. Global warming is affecting all cold environments, including the European Alps and Arctic regions. Here, permafrost may be considered a unique ecosystem harboring a distinct microbiome. The frequent freeze–tha...

    Authors: Ciro Sannino, Weihong Qi, Joel Rüthi, Beat Stierli and Beat Frey
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:54
  3. Ips typographus (European spruce bark beetle) is the most destructive pest of spruce forests in Europe. As for other animals, it has been proposed that the microbiome plays important roles in the biology of bark ...

    Authors: Ezequiel Peral-Aranega, Zaki Saati-Santamaría, Miguel Ayuso-Calles, Martin Kostovčík, Tereza Veselská, Karel Švec, Raúl Rivas, Miroslav Kolařik and Paula García-Fraile
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:53
  4. Marine sponges are diverse and functionally important members of marine benthic systems, well known to harbour complex and abundant symbiotic microorganisms as part of their species-specific microbiome. Change...

    Authors: Claire E. Lamb and Joy E. M. Watts
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:52
  5. Root and soil microbial communities constitute the below-ground plant microbiome, are drivers of nutrient cycling, and affect plant productivity. However, our understanding of their spatiotemporal patterns is ...

    Authors: Lukas P. Bell-Dereske, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci, Pedro Beschoren da Costa, Gregory Bonito, Maren L. Friesen, Lisa K. Tiemann and Sarah E. Evans
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:50
  6. Peatlands contain about 500 Pg of carbon worldwide and play a dual role as both a carbon sink and an important methane (CH4) source, thereby potentially influencing climate change. However, systematic studies on ...

    Authors: Xuhui Chen, Dan Xue, Yue Wang, Qing Qiu, Lin Wu, Meng Wang, Jiawen Liu and Huai Chen
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:48
  7. Microbes have fundamental roles underpinning the functioning of our planet, they are involved in global carbon and nutrient cycling, and support the existence of multicellular life. The mangrove ecosystem is n...

    Authors: Benjamin J. Wainwright, Trevor Millar, Lacee Bowen, Lauren Semon, K. J. E. Hickman, Jen Nie Lee, Zhi Yi Yeo and Geoffrey Zahn
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:47
  8. The microbiota of liverworts provides an interesting model for plant symbioses; however, their microbiome assembly is not yet understood. Here, we assessed specific factors that shape microbial communities ass...

    Authors: Wisnu Adi Wicaksono, Bettina Semler, Martina Pöltl, Christian Berg, Gabriele Berg and Tomislav Cernava
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:46
  9. The assembly and function of the phyllosphere microbiome is important to the overall fitness of plants and, thereby, the ecosystems they inhabit. Presently, model systems for tree phyllosphere microbiome studi...

    Authors: Sarah Addison, Charlotte Armstrong, Kathryn Wigley, Robin Hartley and Steven Wakelin
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:45
  10. Understanding the functional diversity, composition, and dynamics of microbiome is critical for quality in composting. Denitrifying microbiota, possessing multiple metabolic pathways simultaneously. Denitrific...

    Authors: Mingzi Shi, Caihong Song, Lina Xie, Guogang Zhang and Zimin Wei
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:44
  11. The root-associated microbiome has been of keen research interest especially in the last decade due to the large potential for increasing overall plant performance in agricultural systems. Knowledge about the ...

    Authors: Maximilian Fernando Becker, A. Michael Klueken and Claudia Knief
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:43
  12. Rhizosphere microbial communities are important components of the soil-plant continuum in paddy field ecosystems. These rhizosphere communities contribute to nutrient cycling and rice productivity. The use of ...

    Authors: Donald Tchouomo Dondjou, Abdala Gamby Diedhiou, Daouda Mbodj, Marie-Thérèse Mofini, Sarah Pignoly, Cheikh Ndiaye, Issa Diedhiou, Komi Assigbetse, Baboucarr Manneh, Laurent Laplaze and Aboubacry Kane
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:42
  13. Understanding the variability of microbial niches and their interaction with abiotic and biotic factors in the Arctic can provide valuable insights into microbial adaptations to extreme environments. This stud...

    Authors: Shu-Kuan Wong, Yingshun Cui, Seong-Jun Chun, Ryo Kaneko, Shota Masumoto, Ryo Kitagawa, Akira S. Mori, An Suk Lim and Masaki Uchida
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:41
  14. Crop rotation is an agronomic practice that is known to enhance productivity and yield, and decrease pest and disease pressure. Economic and other factors have increased the frequency of certain crops, includi...

    Authors: Jennifer R. Town, Tim Dumonceaux, Breanne Tidemann and Bobbi L. Helgason
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:40
  15. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination has been a worldwide environmental issue because of its impact on ecosystems and human health. Biodegradation plays an important role in PAH removal in natur...

    Authors: Yue Huang, Liguan Li, Xiaole Yin and Tong Zhang
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:39
  16. Pollinators, including solitary bees, are drastically declining worldwide. Among the factors contributing to this decline, bee pathogens and different land uses are of relevance. The link between the gut micro...

    Authors: Gregorio Fernandez De Landa, Daniele Alberoni, Loredana Baffoni, Mateo Fernandez De Landa, Pablo Damian Revainera, Leonardo Pablo Porrini, Constanza Brasesco, Silvina Quintana, Francisco Zumpano, Martìn Javier Eguaras, Matias Daniel Maggi and Diana Di Gioia
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:38
  17. Microbiomes are critical to plants, promoting growth, elevating stress tolerance, and expanding the plant’s metabolic repertoire with novel defense pathways. However, generally microbiomes within plant tissues...

    Authors: Simrandeep Singh, Shiva A. Aghdam, Rachel M. Lahowetz and Amanda M. V. Brown
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:36
  18. We aimed to identify bacteria able to grow in the presence of several antibiotics including the ultra-broad-spectrum antibiotic meropenem in a British agricultural soil by combining DNA stable isotope probing ...

    Authors: Marcela Hernández, Shamik Roy, C. William Keevil and Marc G. Dumont
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:34
  19. This study describes the composition and potential metabolic adaptation of microbial communities in northeastern Siberia, a repository of the oldest permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere. Samples of contrastin...

    Authors: Xiaofen Wu, Abraham L. Almatari, Wyatt A. Cyr, Daniel E. Williams, Susan M. Pfiffner, Elizaveta M. Rivkina, Karen G. Lloyd and Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:33
  20. Storing manure is an essential aspect of nutrient management on dairy farms. It presents the opportunity to use manure efficiently as a fertilizer in crop and pasture production. Typically, the manure storages...

    Authors: Bela Haifa Khairunisa, Usha Loganathan, Jactone A. Ogejo and Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:32
  21. Cave anthropization related to rock art tourism can lead to cave microbiota imbalance and microbial alterations threatening Paleolithic artwork, but the underpinning microbial changes are poorly understood. Ca...

    Authors: Zélia Bontemps, Claire Prigent-Combaret, Alice Guillmot, Mylène Hugoni and Yvan Moënne-Loccoz
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:31
  22. Bacterial communities are critical to ecosystem functioning and sensitive to their surrounding physiochemical environment. However, the impact of land use change on microbial communities remains understudied. ...

    Authors: Z. Louisson, S. M. Hermans, H. L. Buckley, B. S. Case, M. Taylor, F. Curran-Cournane and G. Lear
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:30
  23. Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) are disease complexes that are major threats to viticulture in most grapevine growing regions. The microbiomes colonizing plant belowground components form complex associations ...

    Authors: Yonghua Li, Xinghong Li, Wei Zhang, Jiao Zhang, Hui Wang, Junbo Peng, Xuncheng Wang and Jiye Yan
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:29
  24. For a sustainable production of food, research on agricultural soil microbial communities is inevitable. Due to its immense complexity, soil is still some kind of black box. Soil study designs for identifying ...

    Authors: Johanna Nelkner, Liren Huang, Timo W. Lin, Alexander Schulz, Benedikt Osterholz, Christian Henke, Jochen Blom, Alfred Pühler, Alexander Sczyrba and Andreas Schlüter
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:26
  25. Over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas with, according to the United Nations, nearly 70% expected to live in cities by 2050. Our cities are built by and for humans, but are also complex, adap...

    Authors: Elizabeth Hénaff, Devora Najjar, Miguel Perez, Regina Flores, Christopher Woebken, Christopher E. Mason and Kevin Slavin
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:23
  26. With the escalating risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), there are limited analytical options available that can comprehensively assess the burden of AMR carried by clinical/environmental samples. Food can ...

    Authors: Julie A. Shay, Laura S. E. Haniford, Ashley Cooper, Catherine D. Carrillo, Burton W. Blais and Calvin Ho-Fung Lau
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:25
  27. Soil microorganisms are in constant interaction with plants, and these interactions shape the composition of soil bacterial communities by modifying their environment. However, little is known about the relati...

    Authors: Dinka Mandakovic, Constanza Aguado-Norese, Beatriz García-Jiménez, Christian Hodar, Jonathan E. Maldonado, Alexis Gaete, Mauricio Latorre, Mark D. Wilkinson, Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez, Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Joaquín Medina, Verónica Cambiazo and Mauricio Gonzalez
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:24
  28. Diverse mineralogical compositions occur in hot spring sediments, but the impact of minerals on the diversity and structure of microbial communities remains poorly elucidated. In this study, different mineral ...

    Authors: Fangru Li, Weiguo Hou, Shang Wang, Yidi Zhang, Qing He, Wenhui Zhang and Hailiang Dong
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:22
  29. Verticillium wilt of olive (VWO), caused by Verticillium dahliae Kleb, is one of the most threatening diseases affecting olive cultivation. An integrated disease management strategy is recommended for the effecti...

    Authors: Martina Cardoni, Antonio J. Fernández-González, Antonio Valverde-Corredor, Manuel Fernández-López and Jesús Mercado-Blanco
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:21
  30. The adaptability of halophytes to increased soil salinity is related to complex rhizosphere interactions. In this study, an integrative approach, combining culture-independent and culture-dependent techniques ...

    Authors: Milica Dragojević, Nada Stankovic, Lidija Djokic, Vera Raičević and Jelena Jovičić-Petrović
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:20
  31. The relationships between biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) for microbial communities are poorly understood despite the important roles of microbes acting in natural ecosystems. Dilution-to-extinction (...

    Authors: Zhendu Mao, Zifan Zhao, Jun Da, Ye Tao, Huabing Li, Biying Zhao, Peng Xing and Qinglong Wu
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:19
  32. Due to climate change and reduced use of fertilizers combined stress scenarios are becoming increasingly frequent in crop production. In a field experiment we tested the effect of combined water and phosphorus...

    Authors: Hanna Faist, Friederike Trognitz, Livio Antonielli, Sarah Symanczik, Philip J. White and Angela Sessitsch
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:18

    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:37

  33. Soil services are central to life on the planet, with microorganisms as their main drivers. Thus, the evaluation of soil quality requires an understanding of the principles and factors governing microbial dyna...

    Authors: Blanca Vera-Gargallo, Marcela Hernández, Marc G. Dumont and Antonio Ventosa
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:17

    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:35

  34. Hydraulically fractured shales offer a window into the deep biosphere, where hydraulic fracturing creates new microbial ecosystems kilometers beneath the surface of the Earth. Studying the microbial communitie...

    Authors: Natali Hernandez-Becerra, Lisa Cliffe, Wei Xiu, Christopher Boothman, Jonathan R. Lloyd and Sophie L. Nixon
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:14
  35. Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, contains important numbers of Candidatus Patescibacteria (formerly CPR) in its deepest reaches. However, previously obtained CPR metagenome-assembled genomes recr...

    Authors: Jose M. Haro-Moreno, Pedro J. Cabello-Yeves, M. Pilar Garcillán-Barcia, Alexandra Zakharenko, Tamara I. Zemskaya and Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:12
  36. Rhizosphere and plant microbiota are assumed to play an essential role in deciding the well-being of hosts, but effects of parasites on their host microbiota have been rarely studied. Also, the characteristics...

    Authors: Yujing Miao, Xinke Zhang, Guoshuai Zhang, Zhan Feng, Jin Pei, Chang Liu and Linfang Huang
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:11
  37. Microorganisms such as coliform-forming bacteria are commonly used to assess freshwater quality for drinking and recreational use. However, such organisms do not exist in isolation; they exist within the conte...

    Authors: Sho M. Kodera, Anukriti Sharma, Cameron Martino, Melissa Dsouza, Mark Grippo, Holly L. Lutz, Rob Knight, Jack A. Gilbert, Cristina Negri and Sarah M. Allard
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:10
  38. As holobiont, a plant is intrinsically connected to its microbiomes. However, some characteristics of these microbiomes, such as their taxonomic composition, biological and evolutionary role, and especially th...

    Authors: M. J. Poupin, T. Ledger, R. Roselló-Móra and B. González
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:9
  39. Microbial communities in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) play a role in system success, nutrient cycling, and water quality. Considering the increasing socio-economic role of fish farming, e.g., regard...

    Authors: Jessica Rieder, Adamandia Kapopoulou, Claudia Bank and Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:8
  40. Global biodiversity losses threaten ecosystem services and can impact important functional insurance in a changing world. Microbial diversity and function can become depleted in agricultural systems and attemp...

    Authors: William L. King, Sarah C. Richards, Laura M. Kaminsky, Brosi A. Bradley, Jason P. Kaye and Terrence H. Bell
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:7
  41. Biting midges (Culicoides spp.) are important vectors of diverse microbes such as viruses, protozoa, and nematodes that cause diseases in wild and domestic animals. However, little is known about the role of micr...

    Authors: Saraswoti Neupane, Travis Davis, Dana Nayduch and Bethany L. McGregor
    Citation: Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:5

    The Correction to this article has been published in Environmental Microbiome 2023 18:13