Micro-scale determinants of bacterial diversity in soil

M Vos, AB Wolf, SJ Jennings… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Soil habitats contain vast numbers of microorganisms and harbor a large portion of the
planet's biological diversity. Although high-throughput sequencing technologies continue to …

Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map

JBH Martiny, BJM Bohannan, JH Brown… - Nature Reviews …, 2006 - nature.com
We review the biogeography of microorganisms in light of the biogeography of
macroorganisms. A large body of research supports the idea that free-living microbial taxa …

Physical constraints affecting bacterial habitats and activity in unsaturated porous media–a review

D Or, BF Smets, JM Wraith, A Dechesne… - Advances in Water …, 2007 - Elsevier
The immense diversity of microbial life found in the vadose zone reflects the extremely
heterogeneous and highly dynamic aquatic and chemical environments formed within soil …

Global patterns of diversity and community structure in marine bacterioplankton

T Pommier, B Canbäck, L Riemann… - Molecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Because of their small size, great abundance and easy dispersal, it is often assumed that
marine planktonic microorganisms have a ubiquitous distribution that prevents any …

Population genetics and phylogenetic inference in bacterial molecular systematics: the roles of migration and recombination in Bradyrhizobium species cohesion and …

P Vinuesa, C Silva, D Werner… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2005 - Elsevier
A combination of population genetics and phylogenetic inference methods was used to
delineate Bradyrhizobium species and to uncover the evolutionary forces acting at the …

'Everything is everywhere: but the environment selects': ubiquitous distribution and ecological determinism in microbial biogeography

MA O'Malley - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C …, 2008 - Elsevier
Recent discoveries of geographical patterns in microbial distribution are undermining
microbiology's exclusively ecological explanations of biogeography and their fundamental …

Flowers as Islands: Spatial Distribution of Nectar-Inhabiting Microfungi among Plants of Mimulus aurantiacus, a Hummingbird-Pollinated Shrub

M Belisle, KG Peay, T Fukami - Microbial ecology, 2012 - Springer
Microfungi that inhabit floral nectar offer unique opportunities for the study of microbial
distribution and the role that dispersal limitation may play in generating distribution patterns …

Bacterial succession in a glacier foreland of the High Arctic

UME Schütte, Z Abdo, SJ Bent, CJ Williams… - The ISME …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Succession is defined as changes in biological communities over time. It has been
extensively studied in plant communities, but little is known about bacterial succession, in …

The genome-scale metabolic model for the purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris Bis A53 accurately predicts phenotypes under …

D Tec-Campos, C Posadas… - PLoS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris is recognized as a critical
microorganism in the nitrogen and carbon cycle and one of the most common members in …

Geomicrobiology of cave ferromanganese deposits: a field and laboratory investigation

MN Spilde, DE Northup, PJ Boston… - Geomicrobiology …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Unusual ferromanganese deposits are found in several caves in New Mexico. The deposits
are enriched in iron and manganese by as much as three orders of magnitude over the …