Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?

J Zhou, D Ning - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

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 …

Spatial scale affects the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities in wheat fields across the North China Plain

Y Shi, Y Li, X Xiang, R Sun, T Yang, D He, K Zhang… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background The relative importance of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial
communities is unclear, as are the possible influences that alter the balance between these …

High throughput sequencing analysis of biogeographical distribution of bacterial communities in the black soils of northeast China

J Liu, Y Sui, Z Yu, YU Shi, H Chu, J Jin, X Liu… - Soil Biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Black soils (Mollisols) are one of the most important soil resources for maintaining food
security of China and are mainly distributed in northeast China. To understand which …

Rhizosphere-associated bacterial network structure and spatial distribution differ significantly from bulk soil in wheat crop fields

K Fan, C Cardona, Y Li, YU Shi, X Xiang… - Soil Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The spatial distribution of bacteria in bulk soil has been well studied, but little is known about
the bacterial biogeography in the rhizosphere of crops. Here, we investigated bacterial …

Geographic distance and pH drive bacterial distribution in alkaline lake sediments across Tibetan Plateau

J Xiong, Y Liu, X Lin, H Zhang, J Zeng… - Environmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Continent‐scale biogeography has been extensively studied in soils and marine systems,
but little is known about biogeographical patterns in non‐marine sediments. We used …

Soil carbon content drives the biogeographical distribution of fungal communities in the black soil zone of northeast China

J Liu, Y Sui, Z Yu, Y Shi, H Chu, J Jin, X Liu… - Soil Biology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Black soils (Mollisols) are one of the most important soil resources for maintaining food
security in China, and they are mainly distributed in northeast China. A previous …

Soil pH determines bacterial distribution and assembly processes in natural mountain forests of eastern China

Y Ni, T Yang, Y Ma, K Zhang, PS Soltis… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim There have been numerous studies of forest‐soil microbial biogeography, but an
integrated view of edaphic factors, plant, climatic factors, and geographic distance in …

Elevated temperature and CO2 strongly affect the growth strategies of soil bacteria

Y Ruan, Y Kuzyakov, X Liu, X Zhang, Q Xu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The trait-based strategies of microorganisms appear to be phylogenetically conserved, but
acclimation to climate change may complicate the scenario. To study the roles of phylogeny …

Contemporary environmental variation determines microbial diversity patterns in acid mine drainage

JL Kuang, LN Huang, LX Chen, ZS Hua, SJ Li… - The ISME …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
A wide array of microorganisms survive and thrive in extreme environments. However, we
know little about the patterns of, and controls over, their large-scale ecological distribution …