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Stegen JC, Hurlbert AH, Bond-Lamberty B, et al. Aligning the Measurement of Microbial Diversity with Macroecological Theory. Front Microbiol. 2016;7:1487doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01487.
Stegen, J. C., Hurlbert, A. H., Bond-Lamberty, B., Chen, X., Anderson, C. G., Chu, R. K., Dini-Andreote, F., Fansler, S. J., Hess, N. J., & Tfaily, M. (2016). Aligning the Measurement of Microbial Diversity with Macroecological Theory. Frontiers in microbiology, 71487. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01487
Stegen, James C, et al. "Aligning the Measurement of Microbial Diversity with Macroecological Theory." Frontiers in microbiology vol. 7 (2016): 1487. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01487
Stegen JC, Hurlbert AH, Bond-Lamberty B, Chen X, Anderson CG, Chu RK, Dini-Andreote F, Fansler SJ, Hess NJ, Tfaily M. Aligning the Measurement of Microbial Diversity with Macroecological Theory. Front Microbiol. 2016 Sep 23;7:1487. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01487. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27721808; PMCID: PMC5033968.
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Front Microbiol. 2016 Sep 23;7:1487. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01487. eCollection 2016.

Aligning the Measurement of Microbial Diversity with Macroecological Theory.

Frontiers in microbiology

James C Stegen, Allen H Hurlbert, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Xingyuan Chen, Carolyn G Anderson, Rosalie K Chu, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Sarah J Fansler, Nancy J Hess, Malak Tfaily

Affiliations

  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences Division Richland, WA, USA.
  2. Biology Department and Curriculum in Environment and Ecology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
  3. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute College Park, MD, USA.
  4. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division Richland, WA, USA.
  5. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Richland, WA, USA.
  6. Microbial Ecology Cluster, Genomics Research in Ecology and Evolution in Nature (GREEN), Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.

PMID: 27721808 PMCID: PMC5033968 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01487

Abstract

The number of microbial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) within a community is akin to species richness within plant/animal ("macrobial") systems. A large literature documents OTU richness patterns, drawing comparisons to macrobial theory. There is, however, an unrecognized fundamental disconnect between OTU richness and macrobial theory: OTU richness is commonly estimated on a per-individual basis, while macrobial richness is estimated per-area. Furthermore, the range or extent of sampled environmental conditions can strongly influence a study's outcomes and conclusions, but this is not commonly addressed when studying OTU richness. Here we (

Keywords: OTU richness; boreal forest; niche conservatism; permafrost; rarefaction; soil; species energy theory; species richness

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