Microbial diversity

Inequality in academic publishing: Latin American researchers against the odds

Researchers from Latin America have been facing many obstacles in science, ranging fromlimited research funding to language barriers, and in recent years the increase in pay-to-publish journals. Journals use a variety of models to meet their income …

From competition to cooperation: Paradigm shifts in trait-based ecology change our understanding of the processes that structure microbial communities

Prevailing social, economic and political ideas and paradigms constitute the lens through which scientists observe, assess, and understand the world. This affects how we interpret and understand the mechanisms governing the interaction between …

A georeferenced rRNA amplicon database of aquatic microbiomes from South america

The biogeography of bacterial communities is a key topic in Microbial Ecology. Regarding continental water, most studies are carried out in the northern hemisphere, leaving a gap on microorganism’s diversity patterns on a global scale. South America …