To thrive in an environmental niche and face its stress conditions, (micro)organisms need to have the right physiological capabilities. A new study ‘Functional trait relationships demonstrate life strategies in terrestrial prokaryotes’ published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology investigates how these physiological traits determine where an organism is able to survive. The first author of the study, … Continue reading #FEMSmicroBlog: Physiology determines where an organism thrives