Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings

A Jousset, C Bienhold, A Chatzinotas… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Rare species are increasingly recognized as crucial, yet vulnerable components of Earth's
ecosystems. This is also true for microbial communities, which are typically composed of a …

Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere

MDJ Lynch, JD Neufeld - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
The profound influence of microorganisms on human life and global biogeochemical cycles
underlines the value of studying the biogeography of microorganisms, exploring microbial …

Nutrient supply controls the linkage between species abundance and ecological interactions in marine bacterial communities

T Dai, D Wen, CT Bates, L Wu, X Guo, S Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nutrient scarcity is pervasive for natural microbial communities, affecting species
reproduction and co-existence. However, it remains unclear whether there are general rules …

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 …

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 …

Analysing microbial community composition through amplicon sequencing: from sampling to hypothesis testing

LW Hugerth, AF Andersson - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Microbial ecology as a scientific field is fundamentally driven by technological advance. The
past decade's revolution in DNA sequencing cost and throughput has made it possible for …

Conditionally rare taxa disproportionately contribute to temporal changes in microbial diversity

A Shade, SE Jones, JG Caporaso, J Handelsman… - MBio, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial communities typically contain many rare taxa that make up the majority of the
observed membership, yet the contribution of this microbial “rare biosphere” to community …

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 …

Drivers of the composition of active rhizosphere bacterial communities in temperate grasslands

S Vieira, J Sikorski, S Dietz, K Herz… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The active bacterial rhizobiomes and root exudate profiles of phytometers of six plant
species growing in central European temperate grassland communities were investigated in …

SAR11 bacteria: the most abundant plankton in the oceans

SJ Giovannoni - Annual review of marine science, 2017 - annualreviews.org
SAR11 is a group of small, carbon-oxidizing bacteria that reach a global estimated
population size of 2.4× 1028 cells—approximately 25% of all plankton. They are found …