Beyond biogeographic patterns: processes sha** the microbial landscape

CA Hanson, JA Fuhrman, MC Horner-Devine… - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Recently, microbiologists have established the existence of biogeographic patterns among a
wide range of microorganisms. The focus of the field is now shifting to identifying the …

A guide to the natural history of freshwater lake bacteria

RJ Newton, SE Jones, A Eiler… - Microbiology and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Freshwater bacteria are at the hub of biogeochemical cycles and control water quality in
lakes. Despite this, little is known about the identity and ecology of functionally significant …

Co-existing water and sediment bacteria are driven by contrasting environmental factors across glacier-fed aquatic systems

L Zhang, M Delgado-Baquerizo, Y Shi, X Liu, Y Yang… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Glacier-fed aquatic ecosystems provide habitats for diverse and active bacterial
communities. However, the environmental vulnerabilities of co-existing water and sediment …

The biogeography of abundant and rare bacterioplankton in the lakes and reservoirs of China

L Liu, J Yang, Z Yu, DM Wilkinson - The ISME journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria play key roles in the ecology of both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; however,
little is known about their diversity and biogeography, especially in the rare microbial …

Comparison of the levels of bacterial diversity in freshwater, intertidal wetland, and marine sediments by using millions of illumina tags

Y Wang, HF Sheng, Y He, JY Wu… - Applied and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Sediment, a special realm in aquatic environments, has high microbial diversity. While there
are numerous reports about the microbial community in marine sediment, freshwater and …

Alpha-, beta-, and gamma-diversity of bacteria varies across habitats

KE Walters, JBH Martiny - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Bacteria are essential parts of ecosystems and are the most diverse organisms on the
planet. Yet, we still do not know which habitats support the highest diversity of bacteria …

Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities

A Barberán, ST Bates, EO Casamayor… - The ISME journal, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Exploring large environmental datasets generated by high-throughput DNA sequencing
technologies requires new analytical approaches to move beyond the basic inventory …

Global patterns of bacterial beta-diversity in seafloor and seawater ecosystems

L Zinger, LA Amaral-Zettler, JA Fuhrman… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Marine microbial communities have been essential contributors to global
biomass, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity since the early history of Earth, but so far their …

Two key features influencing community assembly processes at regional scale: initial state and degree of change in environmental conditions

Y Feng, R Chen, JC Stegen, Z Guo, J Zhang… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Belowground microbial communities strongly influence ecosystem function such that
predicting function may rely on understanding ecological processes that assemble …

Local and regional factors influencing bacterial community assembly

ES Lindström, S Langenheder - Environmental Microbiology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The classical view states that microbial biogeography is not affected by dispersal barriers or
historical events, but only influenced by the local contemporary habitat conditions (species …