Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

S Louca, MF Polz, F Mazel, MBN Albright… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Microbial communities often exhibit incredible taxonomic diversity, raising questions
regarding the mechanisms enabling species coexistence and the role of this diversity in …

Patterns and processes of microbial community assembly

DR Nemergut, SK Schmidt, T Fukami… - Microbiology and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recent research has expanded our understanding of microbial community assembly.
However, the field of community ecology is inaccessible to many microbial ecologists …

High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities

S Louca, SMS Jacques, APF Pires, JS Leal… - Nature ecology & …, 2016 - nature.com
Understanding the processes that are driving variation of natural microbial communities
across space or time is a major challenge for ecologists. Environmental conditions strongly …

Contrasting the relative importance of species sorting and dispersal limitation in sha** marine bacterial versus protist communities

W Wu, HP Lu, A Sastri, YC Yeh, GC Gong… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A central challenge in microbial ecology is to understand the underlying mechanisms driving
community assembly, particularly in the continuum of species sorting and dispersal …

Competitive interaction with keystone taxa induced negative priming under biochar amendments

L Chen, Y Jiang, C Liang, Y Luo, Q Xu, C Han, Q Zhao… - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background Biochar amendments have been widely proposed as a conventional and
efficient strategy to promote soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration via negative priming …

Experimental insights into the importance of aquatic bacterial community composition to the degradation of dissolved organic matter

JB Logue, CA Stedmon, AM Kellerman… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria play a central role in the cycling of carbon, yet our understanding of the relationship
between the taxonomic composition and the degradation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) …

Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition

MS Strickland, C Lauber, N Fierer, MA Bradford - Ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A critical assumption underlying terrestrial ecosystem models is that soil microbial
communities, when placed in a common environment, will function in an identical manner …

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 …

Functional redundancy in soil microbial community based on metagenomics across the globe

H Chen, K Ma, C Lu, Q Fu, Y Qiu, J Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the contribution of soil microbial communities to ecosystem processes is
critical for predicting terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks under changing climate. Our current …

Distribution of typical freshwater bacterial groups is associated with pH, temperature, and lake water retention time

ES Lindström… - Applied and …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
The distribution of 15 typical freshwater bacterial groups in 15 diverse lakes in northern
Europe was investigated using reverse line blot hybridization. Statistical evaluation of the …