Larger Islands House More Bacterial Taxa

by: Thomas Bell, Duane Ager, Ji-Inn Song, Jonathan A Newman, Ian P Thompson, Andrew K Lilley, Christopher J van der Gast

Science, Vol. 308, No. 5730. (24 June 2005), 1884.

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Abstract

The power law that describes the relationship between species richness and area size is one of the few generalizations in ecology, but recent studies show that this relationship differs for microbes. We demonstrate that the natural bacterial communities inhabiting small aquatic islands (treeholes) do indeed follow the species-area law. The result requires a re-evaluation of the current understanding of how natural microbial communities operate and implies that analogous processes structure both microbial communities and communities of larger organisms. 10.1126/science.1111318

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TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3040820 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3040820 TI - Larger Islands House More Bacterial Taxa JF - Science VL - 308 IS - 5730 SP - 1884 N2 - The power law that describes the relationship between species richness and area size is one of the few generalizations in ecology, but recent studies show that this relationship differs for microbes. We demonstrate that the natural bacterial communities inhabiting small aquatic islands (treeholes) do indeed follow the species-area law. The result requires a re-evaluation of the current understanding of how natural microbial communities operate and implies that analogous processes structure both microbial communities and communities of larger organisms. 10.1126/science.1111318 KW - ecology KW - metagenomics KW - microbes AU - Bell, Thomas AU - Ager, Duane AU - Song, Ji-Inn AU - Newman, Jonathan AU - Thompson, Ian AU - Lilley, Andrew AU - van der Gast, Christopher PY - 2005/06/24/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1111318 ER -

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