The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology

By J. Prosser, B. Bohannan, Thomas P. Curtis, R. Ellis, M. Firestone, R. Freckleton, Jessica L. Green, L. Green, K. Killham, J. Lennon and 4 more. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2007

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Biochar: Carbon Sequestration, Land Remediation, and Impacts on Soil Microbiology (2012, methodology): “Therefore, the recent application of (macro)ecology analytical tools/indicators in molecular microecophysiology (Prosser et al., 2007), such as DGGE/T-RFLP data interpretation for taxa-area/biogeography relationships in (arbuscular) mycorrhizal fungal (van der Gast et al., 2010) and bacterial (Bell…”
Microbial Biogeography: Patterns in Microbial Diversity across Space and Time (2008, neutral): “Recent studies, reviewed in Green and Bohannan (2006), Prosser et al. (2007) and Woodcock et al. (2006), have shown that microbes also demonstrate a positive species-area relationship with the taxonomic richness of microbes increasing with the amount of area surveyed (Figure 5).”
Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges (2020, background): “However, the extent to which these concepts, developed for macro-eukaryotes, can be applied to prokaryotes with their different lifestyles regarding dormancy, variation of phenotype, and horizontal gene transfer [52] as well as to micro-eukaryotes that is not quite clear.”
Arbuscular mycorrhiza and soil nitrogen cycling (2012, background): “In most instances, results on modified bacterial abundance may provide little information of changes in the rates of the respective N-cycling processes as bacteria are well known to possess a remarkable physiological flexibility, here defined as their ability to respond to micro-environmental change”
Culture-independent molecular techniques for soil microbial ecology (2010, background): “…the definition of “species” in prokaryotes as classification based on 16S rRNA gene (16S ribotyping) sequences eludes differential functional attributes encoded by genomes although it is generally accepted as an appropriate taxonomic identifier (Rosselló-Mora and Amann, 2001; Prosser et al., 2007).”
Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives (2016, background): “Progress in resolving soil ecological questions requires quantitative models that integrate key biophysical processes with ecological interactions at appropriate spatial and temporal scales (Prosser et al., 2007).”
The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks (2010, background): “These difficulties are intertwined with our struggle to apply the species concept to bacteri”
Archaea in dry soil environments (2009, background): “The number of prokaryotes on earth has been estimated to be 1028–1030 (Schmidt 2006; Prosser et al. 2007).”
Biogeography of Bacterioplankton in Inland Waters (2008, positive): “The interpretation of biogeographical data as well as the design of investigative studies require a theoretical foundation providing structure and mechanistic insight and, eventually, predictability of natural assemblages (e.g. Prosser et al., 2007).”
Bacterial Extracellular Enzymatic Activity in Globally Changing Aquatic Ecosystems (2010, background): “Furthermore, with relatively short generation times, microbial communities could be among the fastest components of an ecosystem to respond to changing environmental conditions [105-106].”
Bacterial competition: surviving and thriving in the microbial jungle (2010, background): “The future is bright as microbiologists are beginning to test ecological theor”