Background: The evolutionary relationships between plants and their microbiomes are of high importance to the survival in general even more extreme conditions. Changes plant's microbiome can affect plant development, growth, fitness, health. Along arid Arava, southern Israel, acacia trees ( Acacia raddiana tortilis ) considered keystone species. In this study, we investigated ecological effects...

Forest canopies are incredibly complex self-maintaining biological structures. Conditions above and within the canopy can differ vastly, often resulting in a vertical gradient of microclimate conditions. Canopy epiphytic plants have to deal with climatic variability on much more variable scales compared many other plant groups. The difficulty sensor installation their high cost explain why it h...

Understanding variation in the relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes community assembly is an ongoing focus research ecology (Shipley et al., 2012; Weiher & Keddy, 1995). Deterministic are species interactions ‘environmental filtering’ (selection imposed by abiotic environment), whereas dispersal, disturbances births deaths (Chase Myers, 2011). It has been suggested that...