该杂志的范围与环境微生物学相同，拥有相同的编辑团队和提交网站，并将采用相同的高水平接受标准。这两种期刊将相互支持，并共同发展。环境微生物学报告为该领域最具创新性、原创性和严谨的研究提供了一个引人注目的出版工具。该杂志的范围包括当前对环境中微生物过程、微生物群落和微生物相互作用的研究的多样性，包括但不限于以下内容:微生物群落的结构、活动和群落行为微生物的相互作用以及与植物、动物和非生物环境因素的相互作用种群生物学与克隆结构微生物和表面附着力和生物淤积对环境信号和压力因素的反应生长和存活模型与理论发展微生物群落、遗传学和进化过程微生物生理、代谢和结构多样性污染微生物学极端微生物和生活在极端和不寻常的很少有人探索的栖息地一次和二次生产元素循环和生物地球化学过程microbially-influenced全球变化微生物生态学的新技术发展，特别是在研究微生物群落和非培养微生物的活动方面基础问题的跨学科研究尤其受欢迎。
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The journal is identical in scope to Environmental Microbiology, shares the same editorial team and submission site, and will apply the same high level acceptance criteria. The two journals will be mutually supportive and evolve side-by-side. Environmental Microbiology Reports provides a high profile vehicle for publication of the most innovative, original and rigorous research in the field. The scope of the Journal encompasses the diversity of current research on microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities and microbial interactions, including, but not limited to, the following:the structure, activities and communal behaviour of microbial communitiesmicrobial interactions and interactions with plants, animals and non-living environmental factorspopulation biology and clonal structuremicrobes and surfacesadhesion and biofoulingresponses to environmental signals and stress factorsgrowth and survivalmodelling and theory developmentmicrobial community genetics and evolutionary processesmicrobial physiological, metabolic and structural diversitypollution microbiologyextremophiles and life in extreme and unusual little-explored habitatsprimary and secondary productionelement cycles and biogeochemical processesmicrobially-influenced global changesnew technological developments in microbial ecology, in particular for the study of activities of microbial communities and of non-culturable microorganismsInterdisciplinary studies of fundamental problems are particularly welcome.
