該雜志的范圍與環境微生物學相同，擁有相同的編輯團隊和提交網站，并將采用相同的高水平接受標準。這兩種期刊將相互支持，并共同發展。環境微生物學報告為該領域最具創新性、原創性和嚴謹的研究提供了一個引人注目的出版工具。該雜志的范圍包括當前對環境中微生物過程、微生物群落和微生物相互作用的研究的多樣性，包括但不限于以下內容:微生物群落的結構、活動和群落行為微生物的相互作用以及與植物、動物和非生物環境因素的相互作用種群生物學與克隆結構微生物和表面附著力和生物淤積對環境信號和壓力因素的反應生長和存活模型與理論發展微生物群落、遺傳學和進化過程微生物生理、代謝和結構多樣性污染微生物學極端微生物和生活在極端和不尋常的很少有人探索的棲息地一次和二次生產元素循環和生物地球化學過程microbially-influenced全球變化微生物生態學的新技術發展，特別是在研究微生物群落和非培養微生物的活動方面基礎問題的跨學科研究尤其受歡迎。

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.