The nineteenth century roots of 'everything is everywhere'

O’Malley, Maureen A.

doi:10.1038/nrmicro1711

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“…Our work highlights that most of the diversity found in soil remains undescribed, and although 'everything' is not likely to be 'everywhere' (sensu Baas-Becking, [50]), we can find nearly as many different soil species and community types within the 3.41 km 2 area of Central Park as we would find if we travelled around the world collecting a broad array of soil types. We do not have the data available to quantitatively compare the microbial biogeographic patterns to patterns in plant and animal communities across these sites and due to differences in how species are defined, and it would be difficult to directly compare biogeographic patterns even if we had such data [10].…”

Section: Results and Discussion (A) Central Park Soil Diversity Is Nomentioning

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Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

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Soil biota play key roles in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, however, compared to our knowledge of above-ground plant and animal diversity, the biodiversity found in soils remains largely uncharacterized. Here, we present an assessment of soil biodiversity and biogeographic patterns across Central Park in New York City that spanned all three domains of life, demonstrating that even an urban, managed system harbours large amounts of undescribed soil biodiversity. Despite high variability across the Park, below-ground diversity patterns were predictable based on soil characteristics, with prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities exhibiting overlapping biogeographic patterns. Further, Central Park soils harboured nearly as many distinct soil microbial phylotypes and types of soil communities as we found in biomes across the globe (including arctic, tropical and desert soils). This integrated cross-domain investigation highlights that the amount and patterning of novel and uncharacterized diversity at a single urban location matches that observed across natural ecosystems spanning multiple biomes and continents.

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Section: Results and Discussion (A) Central Park Soil Diversity Is Nomentioning

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Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

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“…Shegyla, indicating that the Bass-Becking hypothesis should be taken into consideration. Bass-Becking hypothesis, known as "everything is everywhere, but the environment selects," assumed that microbes are ubiquitous, and environmental factors make decisive contributions to structuring microbial community compositions [37]. In our study, correlation analyses revealed that the soil geochemical factors exhibited an obvious distribution trend on Mt.…”

Section: Altitudinal Distribution Patterns Of Soil Microorganisms On mentioning

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Altitudinal Distribution Patterns of Soil Bacterial and Archaeal Communities Along Mt. Shegyla on the Tibetan Plateau

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Unraveling the distribution patterns of plants and animals along the elevational gradients has been attracting growing scientific interests of ecologists, whether the microbial communities exhibit similar elevational patterns, however, remains largely less documented. Here, we investigate the biogeographic distribution of soil archaeal and bacterial communities across three vertical climate zones (3,106-4,479 m.a.s.l.) in Mt. Shegyla on the Tibetan Plateau, by combining quantitative PCR and high-throughput barcoded pyrosequencing approaches. Our results found that the ratio of bacterial to archaeal 16S rRNA gene abundance was negatively related with elevation. Acidobacteria dominated in the bacterial communities, Marine benthic group A dominated in the archaeal communities, and the relative abundance of both taxa changed significantly with elevation. At the taxonomic levels of domain, phylum, and class, more bacterial taxa than archaeal exhibited declining trend in diversity along the increasing elevational gradient, as revealed by Shannon and Faith's phylogenetic diversity indices. Unweighted UniFrac distance clustering showed that the bacterial communities from the mountainous temperate zone clustered together, whereas those from the subalpine cool temperate zone clustered together. However, the partitioning effect of elevational zones on the archaeal community was much weaker compared to that on bacteria. Redundancy analysis revealed that soil geochemical factors explained 58.3 % of the bacterial community variance and 75.4 % of the archaeal community variance. Taken together, we provide evidence that soil bacteria exhibited more apparent elevational zonation feature and decreased diversity pattern than archaea with increasing elevation, and distribution patterns of soil microbes are strongly regulated by soil properties along elevational gradient in this plateau montane ecosystem.

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“…Biologists have generally assumed that species of microorganisms are essentially present everywhere but only proliferate under proper conditions (O'Malley, 2007); according to this view, the failure to detect a species at a particular location does not result from its absence but from inadequate conditions to support its proliferation. In a clone library of a sample, more clones sequenced, more OTUs detected (Buée et al, 2009).…”

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“…A large-scale riverine current provides contemporary environmental conditions and historical contingencies, which are considered to be the two main factors that shape fungal and bacterial communities in ecosystems (Martiny et al, 2006;O'Malley, 2007). However, the relative importance of these factors remains unclear.…”

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The biogeography of fungal communities in wetland sediments along the Changjiang River and other sites in China

Tian

Bai

et al. 2013

The ISME Journal

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Whether fungal community structure depends more on historical factors or on contemporary factors is controversial. This study used culture-dependent and -independent (polymerase chain reactiondenaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE)) methods to assess the influence of historical and contemporary factors on the distributions of fungi in the wetland sediments at 10 locations along the Changjiang River and at 10 other locations in China. The culture-dependent approach detected greater species diversity (177 operational taxonomic units (OTUs)) than PCR-DGGE analysis (145 OTUs), and the species in the genera of Penicillium (relative frequency ¼ 16.8%), Fusarium (15.4%), Aspergillus (7.6%), Trichoderma (5.8%) and Talaromyces (4.2%) were dominant. On the basis of DGGE data, fungal diversity along the Changjiang River increased from upstream to downstream; altitude explained 44.8% of this variation in diversity. And based on the data from all 20 locations, the fungal communities were geographically clustered into three groups: Southern China, Northern China and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Multivariate regression tree analysis for data from the 20 locations indicated that the fungal community was influenced primarily by location (which explained 61.8% of the variation at a large scale), followed by total potassium (9.4%) and total nitrogen (3.5%) at a local scale. These results are consistent with the concept that geographic distance is the dominant factor driving variation in fungal diversity at a regional scale (1000-4000 km), whereas environmental factors (total potassium and total nitrogen) explain variation in fungal diversity at a local scale (o1000 km).

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The nineteenth century roots of 'everything is everywhere'

Cited by 172 publications

References 35 publications

Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

Biogeographic patterns in below-ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally

Altitudinal Distribution Patterns of Soil Bacterial and Archaeal Communities Along Mt. Shegyla on the Tibetan Plateau

The biogeography of fungal communities in wetland sediments along the Changjiang River and other sites in China

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