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Differences in soil bacterial diversity: driven by contemporary disturbances or historical contingencies?
- Yuan Ge, Ji-zheng He, Yong-guan Zhu, Jia-bao Zhang, Zhihong Xu, Li-mei Zhang, Yuan-ming Zheng,
- Original article citation: ISME J doi:10.1038/ismej.2008.2 (2008)
- Categories: Ecology & Evolution, Earth & Environment, and Cell & Molecular Biology
- Recommended by: James Moir on 02/14/2008 09:54PM GMT
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It is an open debate in microbial ecology that if there is any distribution pattern for soil microbial diversity. Professor Ji-Zheng He and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences provided strong evidence that the bacterial diversity variation is mainly controlled by the soil historical contingencies across a regional scale (1000 km), while contemporary disturbances contribute much less variations of the bacterial diversity, according to their paper published in The ISME Journal by the Nature Publishing Group (published online 31 January 2008). They used a large set of manipulated field-based molecular data and advanced statistical analyses to elucidate quantitatively the contributions of the historical contingencies and the contemporary disturbances to the variations of soil bacterial diversity. This study is the first quantitative examination of the relative importance of contemporary disturbances (~20%) and historical contingencies (~60%) in influencing large-scale soil bacterial diversity. Moreover, this paper showed an important approach for accessing soil microbial biogeography by using latest molecular techniques, advanced statistical analyses and ecological theories. The findings of this study indicated that there are some aspects of biogeography that might be common to all life, which would extend our understanding of the biogeography of organisms.
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The study indicated an important method to evoluate soil microbial diversity by using latest molecular techniques.
Biodiversity is the hot topic of ecology, especially the biodiversity of microbiology. This article studied the biodiveristy of microbiology in a large scale. Moreover, the time scale is also taken account. I personally think the article is very good.
A lot of scientists showed great interest in microbial biodiversity recently, because it can sensitively indicate the variation of soil in physical, chemical and biological character. This article studied bacterial biodiversity using molecular methods. This is very significant to study the biological indication of microorganisms.
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