The microbial rare biosphere: current concepts, methods and ecological principles

F Pascoal, R Costa, C Magalhães - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Our ability to describe the highly diverse pool of low abundance populations present in
natural microbial communities is increasing at an unprecedented pace. Yet we currently lack …

Microbial assembly, interaction, functioning, activity and diversification: a review derived from community compositional data

J Liu, Z Meng, X Liu, XH Zhang - Marine Life Science & Technology, 2019 - Springer
Microorganisms play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem stability. The last two decades
have witnessed an upsurge in studies on marine microbial community composition using …

Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields

S Jiao, Y Lu - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soil communities are intricately linked to ecosystem functioning, and a predictive
understanding of how communities assemble in response to environmental change is of …

Soil pH and temperature regulate assembly processes of abundant and rare bacterial communities in agricultural ecosystems

S Jiao, Y Lu - Environmental Microbiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The factors determining stochastic and deterministic processes that drive microbial
community structure, specifically the balance of abundant and rare bacterial taxa, remain …

Distinct patterns and processes of abundant and rare eukaryotic plankton communities following a reservoir cyanobacterial bloom

Y Xue, H Chen, JR Yang, M Liu, B Huang… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Plankton communities normally consist of few abundant and many rare species, yet little is
known about the ecological role of rare planktonic eukaryotes. Here we used a 18S …

Contrasting the relative importance of species sorting and dispersal limitation in shaping 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 …

Biogeographic patterns of abundant and rare bacterioplankton in three subtropical bays resulting from selective and neutral processes

Y Mo, W Zhang, J Yang, Y Lin, Z Yu, S Lin - The ISME journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Unraveling the relative importance of ecological processes regulating microbial community
structure is a central goal in microbial ecology. Here, we used high-throughput sequencing …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of the archaeal community in coastal sediments: assembly process and co-occurrence relationship

J Liu, S Zhu, X Liu, P Yao, T Ge, XH Zhang - The ISME Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Studies of marine benthic archaeal communities are updating our view of their taxonomic
composition and metabolic versatility. However, large knowledge gaps remain with regard to …

Assembly processes of abundant and rare microbial communities in orchard soil under a cover crop at different periods

Z Zhao, Y Ma, T Feng, X Kong, Z Wang, W Zheng… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil microorganisms play key roles in agricultural ecosystems. However, little is known
about their dynamic diversity patterns and community assembly processes, especially in the …

Destabilized microbial networks with distinct performances of abundant and rare biospheres in maintaining networks under increasing salinity stress

C Li, L Jin, C Zhang, S Li, T Zhou, Z Hua, L Wang, S Ji… - IMeta, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global changes such as seawater intrusion and freshwater resource salinization increase
environmental stress imposed on the aquatic microbiome. A strong predictive understanding …