The accumulation of microbial‐derived organic carbon in soils during long‐term vegetation succession represents a key pathway for long‐term soil carbon stabilization. Yet, the role of soil microfauna in regulating microbial carbon dynamics remains poorly understood, particularly across divergent successional trajectories (primary vs. secondary successional gradients). We investigated nematode‐microbe interactions influencing c...

Summary Recent advances in sequencing technology and bioinformatic pipelines have allowed unprecedented access to the genomes of yet‐uncultivated microorganisms from diverse environments. However, the catalogue of freshwater genomes remains limited, and most genome recovery attempts in freshwater ecosystems have only targeted specific taxa. Here, we present a genome recovery pipeline incorporating iterative subtractive binning...

Summary Studying how bacterial strains diverge over space and time and how divergence leads to ecotype formation is important for understanding structure and dynamics of environmental communities. Here we assess the ecological speciation and temporal dynamics of a collection of S hewanella baltica strains from the redox transition zone of the central B altic Sea, sampled at three time points over a course of 12 years, with a s...