Salt marshes are highly productive ecosystems where microbial communities drive key
transformations of organic matter at rates often exceeding those of oceanic and inland
environments. Viruses are recognised as important drivers and regulators of global
biogeochemical cycling, y...
Background:
Primary succession is predicted to proceed through shifts from stress-tolerant to competitive to cooperative ecological strategies as resource availability increases, yet molecular evidence for these transitions in microbial systems remains limited. Here, we used an integrated m...