Journal of Environmental Research

Microbial communities are liable for energy and nutrient cycling and are massively involved within the planet’s sustainability. Microbes are directly involved within the dynamics of global climate change by their impact on the destabilization, mineralization and sequestration of organic matter. The facets of microbial diversity contains morphological, structural, metabolic, ecological or evolutionary diversity; however, the central question in microbial ecology—“Who eats what, where and when?”—queries how the key player within the community is to perform the foremost meaningful activity. To answer this, one major task is to spot the relationships between the composition of the microbial community and therefore the functional processes.

Here, we introduce the section Environmental Microbiology. This section are going to be dedicated to topics that remain focused on the study of microbial processes within the environment, microbial communities and microbial interactions; including the OMICS technologies and cross-disciplinary studies dedicated to basic and/or applied research. The editorial board will review all manuscripts submitted for publication during this section. However, articles which seem to be outside the scope of the topic matter listed here could also be mentioned another section of Microorganisms.