Contrasting the relative importance of species sorting and dispersal limitation in shaping marine bacterial versus protist communities

Abundant and rare picoeukaryotic sub-communities present contrasting patterns in the epipelagic waters of marginal seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean

(2017) Wenxue Wu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Predators regulate prey species sorting and spatial distribution in microbial landscapes

(2017) George Livingston et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Growth Rates of Microbes in the Oceans

(2016) David L. Kirchman   Annual Review of Marine Science

A comparison between field and laboratory pH measurements for seawater on the East China Sea shelf

(2016) Wen-Chen Chou et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

Taxonomic resolution based on DNA barcoding affects environmental signal in metacommunity structure

(2016) Gillian K. Martin et al.   Freshwater Science

Taxonomic resolution based on DNA barcoding affects environmental signal in metacommunity structure

(2016) Gillian K. Martin et al.   Freshwater Science

Wind dispersal results in a gradient of dispersal limitation and environmental match among discrete aquatic habitats

(2015) Zsófia Horváth et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Combined effects of zooplankton grazing and dispersal on the diversity and assembly mechanisms of bacterial metacommunities

(2015) Mercè Berga et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial biogeography in the coastal waters of northern Zhejiang, East China Sea is highly controlled by spatially structured environmental gradients

(2015) Kai Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Stochastic distribution of small soil eukaryotes resulting from high dispersal and drift in a local environment

(2015) Mohammad Bahram et al.   ISME Journal

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation

(2015) Jed A. Fuhrman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

(2015) C. de Vargas et al.   SCIENCE

Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

(2015) S. Sunagawa et al.   SCIENCE

Determinism of bacterial metacommunity dynamics in the southern East China Sea varies depending on hydrography

(2014) Yi-Chun Yeh et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A quantitative analysis of species sorting across organisms and ecosystems

(2014) Janne Soininen   ECOLOGY

Can marine bacteria be recruited from freshwater sources and the air?

(2014) Jérôme Comte et al.   ISME Journal

Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

(2014) Mark Vellend et al.   OIKOS

Colonization Rates in a Metacommunity Altered by Competition

(2014) Shajini Jeganmohan et al.   PLoS One

Dispersal Ability Determines the Role of Environmental, Spatial and Temporal Drivers of Metacommunity Structure

(2014) André A. Padial et al.   PLoS One

Quantifying community assembly processes and identifying features that impose them

(2013) James C Stegen et al.   ISME Journal

Disentangling the drivers of metacommunity structure across spatial scales

(2013) Christine N. Meynard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Patterns and Processes of Microbial Community Assembly

(2013) D. R. Nemergut et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Biased Diversity Metrics Revealed by Bacterial 16S Pyrotags Derived from Different Primer Sets

(2013) Lin Cai et al.   PLoS One

Ecological determinism increases with organism size

(2012) Vinicius F. Farjalla et al.   ECOLOGY

Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms

(2012) T. Bie et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Eukaryotic versus prokaryotic marine picoplankton ecology

(2012) Ramon Massana et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effect of oxygen minimum zone formation on communities of marine protists

(2012) William Orsi et al.   ISME Journal

Different biogeographic patterns of prokaryotes and microbial eukaryotes in epilithic biofilms

(2012) MARIE RAGON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Beyond biogeographic patterns: processes shaping the microbial landscape

(2012) China A. Hanson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

(2012) Laure Guillou et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The terminology of metacommunity ecology

(2012) Amanda K. Winegardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Distance decay of similarity in freshwater communities: do macro- and microorganisms follow the same rules?

(2011) Anna Astorga et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi-terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal abilities sampled in the same plots

(2011) Michal Hájek et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Disentangling the spatial patterns in community composition of prokaryotic and eukaryotic lake plankton

(2011) Janne Soininen et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy

(2011) Jay T. Lennon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Global Patterns of Bacterial Beta-Diversity in Seafloor and Seawater Ecosystems

(2011) Lucie Zinger et al.   PLoS One

Disentangling the Drivers of   Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

(2011) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE

Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory

(2011) Jürg B. Logue et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Processes in Oxygen Minimum Zones

(2010) Phyllis Lam et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water

(2010) THORSTEN STOECK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Shifts in metabolic scaling, production, and efficiency across major evolutionary transitions of life

(2010) J. P. DeLong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dormancy contributes to the maintenance of microbial diversity

(2010) S. E. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Contrasts between habitat generalists and specialists: an empirical extension to the basic metacommunity framework

(2009) Shubha N. Pandit et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatial autocorrelation and dispersal limitation in freshwater organisms

(2008) Jonathan B. Shurin et al.   OECOLOGIA