Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

By J. Bryant, C. Lamanna, Hélène Morlon, A. Kerkhoff, Brian J. Enquist, Jessica L. Green. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Rheumatology

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• Phylogenetic clustering and overdispersion for alpine plants along elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains Region, southwest China (2014, background): “…was first presented, phylogenetic frameworks have increasingly been applied to study biodiversity patterns in plants (Webb, 2000; Webb et al., 2006; Bryant et al., 2008; Kluge & Kessler, 2011) and animals (Graham et al., 2009; Auguet et al., 2010; Jones & Hallin, 2010; Machac et al., 2011; Wang et…”
• Partitioning taxon, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity into replacement and richness difference components (2014, positive): “Thus, aj is the length of tree Gj. Total dissimilarity, understood here as the total pairwise b of communities j and k, corresponds to the sum of the lengths of edges that are unique to each community tree: total dissimilarityjk ¼ X ex2Ej lx þ X ex2Ek lx 2 X ex2Ej\Ek lx: This equation was implicitly”
• Rhizosphere-associated bacterial network structure and spatial distribution differ significantly from bulk soil in wheat crop fields (2017, methodology): “Acidobacteria, which decreased monotonically by soil pH changes (Bryant et al., 2008), were depleted in rhizospheric soil, especially tightly bound soil with reduced pH fluctuations.”
• Soil pH drives the spatial distribution of bacterial communities along elevation on Changbai Mountain (2013, background): “Bryant et al. (2008) pointed out that Acidobacteria diversity decreased monotonically with elevation, which was driven by soil pH changes, while Wang et al. (2011) observed the inverse bacterial elevational pattern influenced by carbon supply in a stony stream located on Laojun Mountain.”
• The role of abiotic factors modulating the plant-microbe-soil interactions: toward sustainable agriculture. A review (2017, background): “For example, some studies have shown a pattern of decline, both with respect to the richness and diversity of bacteria along an elevation gradient; i.e., lower species richness and diversity is observed at higher elevations (Kerkhoff et al., 2008; Wang et al., 2014).”
• What drives study‐dependent differences in distance–decay relationships of microbial communities? (2021, background): “…distance– decay relationships than other metrics, because communities that have no species in common can still exhibit high phylogenetic similarity if the species share many branches of a phylogenetic tree, thereby reducing the decay of similarity over geographical distance (Bryant et al., 2008).”
• Global phylogenetic community structure and β-diversity patterns in surface bacterioplankton metacommunities (2010, methodology): “To correct for unequal sample sizes, we calculated the mean of the richness, the Shannon diversity, and PD of 1000 randomized subsamples for each community (Bryant et al. 2008).”
• Strong elevational trends in soil bacterial community composition on Mt. Halla, South Korea (2014, background): “Halla; however none of these patterns was unimodal or monotonous as observed in other studies (Bryant et al., 2008; Fierer et al., 2011; Singh et al., 2012b).”
• Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “Data from our elevational gradient at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, Gothic, CO (see Bryant et al., 2008; Sides et al., 2014; Sloat et al., 2014) 0.05 1.9 2.0 Log10 community-weighted mean SLA Community-weighted variance SLA 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.02.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 10 30 50 70 April gravimetric soil…”
• Elevational Gradients in Species Richness (2010, background): “There is almost no documentation of elevational patterns of microbe diversity, although one study found a decreasing taxon diversity pattern for bacteria in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado between 2460 and 3380m (Bryant et al., 2008).”
• Contrasting patterns in elevational diversity between microorganisms and macroorganisms (2011, methodology): “However, such patterns and hypotheses are based on studies of larger plants and animals, and microorganisms have been left understudied (but see Bryant et al., 2008).”
• Unifying Species Diversity, Phylogenetic Diversity, Functional Diversity, and Related Similarity and Differentiation Measures Through Hill Numbers (2014, background): “For phylo-Sørensen, when N = 2 and q = 0, it reduces to the popular measure PhyloSør developed by Bryant et al. (2008) and Ferrier et al. (2007).”
• Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment (2012, methodology): “…are drawn from different lineages across the phylogeny, then increasing differences in fire regime between communities should increase phylogenetic beta diversity, or phylogenetic dissimilarity between communities (sensu Bryant et al. 2008, Graham and Fine 2008, Sander and Wardell-Johnson 2011).”
• Forest Soil Bacteria: Diversity, Involvement in Ecosystem Processes, and Response to Global Change (2017, background): “acidic soils (8, 96, 98, 99), the abundances of Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria increase”