The bioregional conservation status of the majority of the ecosystem types contained in these areas are considered to be 'endangered' or 'vulnerable', while the area supports a suite of 'threatened' and 'endangered' species (DEPI, 2013).
The vast majority of the ecosystem services benefiting Madagascar's human population derive from these protected areas.
However, due to the high richness and unculturable character of most species in the majority of natural ecosystems, the functions of microbes are still unclear and the importance of the change of community composition with temperature or nutrient increase/decrease is confusing (Streit and Schmitz 2004).
According to studies by Erle Ellis, an ecologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the vast majority of ecosystems on the planet now reflect the presence of people.
Their ecological success may reflect the advantage that legumes gain in soils of low fertility (a characteristic of the majority of Australian ecosystems) by associating with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
We selected Malawi as our study country given its very high rates of deforestation, child undernutrition, and child mortality, as well as the direct dependence of the majority of the population on ecosystem services.
Here we have analysed H. lixii - T. harzianum species complex, one of the most commonly sampled groups of fungi because of its dominant presence in the majority of soil ecosystems worldwide and its occupation of a broad diversity of ecological niches.
In the majority of microbial ecosystems surveyed thus far, extracellular viral particles outnumber their archaeal, bacterial, and eukaryal hosts by at least one order of magnitude (Bergh et al., 1989; Fuhrman, 1999).
The fact that such data is lacking for the vast majority of all natural ecosystems emphasizes the usefulness of this approach.
