Abstract
The recent, considerable increase in microbial ecology research activity, fuelled partly by the application of molecular techniques, has been mirrored in China, with substantial investment in equipment, facilities and research staff and students. This investment is already bearing fruit, generating significant advances in our understanding of microbially mediated biogeochemical processes, including carbon and nutrient cycling, and their impacts on global change, soil fertility and productivity, aquatic microbiology and water pollution, environmental health and pollutant degradation and control. These studies use cutting-edge techniques and address scientific questions and applied problems of global importance. Despite associated increases in the numbers of research papers by Chinese microbial ecologists in international microbial ecology journals, growth in research activity …
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