Global Dispersal of Free-Living Microbial Eukaryote Species

By B. Finlay. Science, 2002

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The importance of dispersal related and local factors in shaping the taxonomic structure of diatom metacommunities (2009, result): “For example, some studies support the traditional view held among microbiologists (Baas-Becking 1934, Finlay and Clarke 1999, Finlay 2002) that microbial communities are exclusively constrained by local environmental factors (Beisner et al. 2006), whilst others have shown strong evidence for…”
The diversity and distribution of diatoms: from cosmopolitanism to narrow endemism (2008, background): “…comes from high local to global morphospecies ratios for various groups of photosynthetic and heterotrophic protists (Finlay and Clarke 1999; Finlay and Fenchel 2004) and the maintenance of consistent patterns of local abundance or rarity on a global scale (Finlay and Clarke 1999; Finlay 2002).”
Diversity and biogeography of testate amoebae (2008, background): “Apologists for this paradigm have presented evidence for the cosmopolitan dispersion of all microorganisms up to ca 1 mm in size (Finlay 2002; Finlay and Fenchel 2004).”
Environmental filtering affects soil fungal community composition more than dispersal limitation at regional scales (2014, background): “Airborne fungal spore dispersal is mainly considered to be an unlimited, stochastic process influenced by local abundance of fungal populations (Baas-Becking, 1934; Finlay, 2002; Martiny et al., 2006).”
Phytoplankton trends in the Baltic Sea (2003, background): “Also, because of the high dispersal capacity of microscopic organisms (Finlay 2002).”
Marine nematode deep‐sea biodiversity – hyperdiverse or hype? (2003, background): “Microbial eukaryotes appear to show an extreme version of the pattern of high local and low regional (and apparently global) species richness because the dispersal of microbial species is rarely, possibly never, restricted by geographical barriers (Finlay, 2002).”
High throughput sequencing analysis of biogeographical distribution of bacterial communities in the black soils of northeast China (2014, background): “Some studies showed that the dispersal limitation was not the primary driver of biogeographical patterns, and bacterial communities in neighboring habitats might be more dissimilar than those in remote habitats (Fenchel et al., 1997; Finlay and Clarke, 1999; Finlay, 2002; Chu et al., 2010).”
Monitoring change in the abundance and distribution of insects using butterflies and other indicator groups (2005, background): “…greater resources they need and the active mobility of many of them, whereas free-living organisms smaller than 1 mm3 experience such rapid passive transportation and mixing by wind and currents that speciation through geographical (as opposed to niche) isolation is prevented (Finlay 2002, 2004).”
Strength, slope and variability of marine latitudinal gradients (2004, background): “Some studies even suggested a boundary size delimiting ubiquitous and restricted distribution, either 2 mm (Finlay 2002) or 100 µm (Wilkinson 2001), but the results discussed above render it rather improbable that such a threshold size exists on a general level.”
Biogeographic analysis of ribosomal RNA clusters from marine bacterioplankton (2005, background): “The common view that ‘everything is everywhere’, first formulated at the beginning of the last century by the biologist Beijerinck (Brock 1961), was newly reintroduced by Fenchel and Finlay in a series of publications (Finlay 1998, Finlay & Clarke 1999, Finlay 2002, Fenchel & Finlay 2004).”
Spatial scaling of microbial biodiversity. (2006, methodology): “Pot, a 1-ha freshwater pond in England [ 10 ,20].”
Accidental transfer of non-native soil organisms into Antarctica on construction vehicles (2010, background): “…introductions, as knowledge of indigenous biodiversity is often scanty, many microbial groups have extensive global distributions and microorganisms may be introduced by natural means, e.g. air currents or migrating wildlife (Finlay 2002; Hughes et al. 2004; Hughes et al. 2006; Marshall 1996).”
Accelerated biodegradation of pesticides: An overview of the phenomenon, its basis and possible solutions; and a discussion on the tropical dimension (2007, background): “Due to their small size, their high number and their ability to form stable dormant forms, microorganisms can be easily transported across the planet (Finlay, 2002; Kellogg and Griffin, 2006).”