Xiao-Jun Allen Liu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Microbiology, Amherst, MA, United States, Grace Pold, University of Massachusetts, Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Amherst, MA, United States, Luiz Domeignoz Horta, University of Massachusetts, Microbiology, Amherst, MA, United States, Serita D Frey, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Jerry M Melillo, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Kristen M DeAngelis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States