Ecological disturbances like wildfires disrupt microbial communities. Researchers studied microbial succession for a year in a field, following a fire. They found that dispersal played a pivotal role in re-establishing surface-level communities. Dispersal from wind or rain explained the return of most fungal species. Bacterial communities were influenced by both air and deeper bulk soil. Washington, D.C-The disruption brought by wildfires reaches everything that lives in or near a burning field or forest-including microbes.

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