Analysis of microbial community functional diversity using sole-carbon-source utilisation profiles - a critique.

By Juliet Preston-Mafham, Lynne Boddy, P. Randerson. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2002

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Functional Diversity of Culturable Bacterial Communities in the Rhizosphere in Relation to Fine-root and Soil Parameters in Alder Stands on Forest, Abandoned Agricultural, and Oil-shale Mining Areas (2006, background): “Biolog Ecoplates, where all substrates are known as root exudates were used to determine community-level physiological profiles (CLPP) of culturable bacteria in soil–root interface and bulk soil samples (Preston-Mafham et al., 2002).”
Changes in microbial community structure and function following Sphagnum peatland restoration (2010, result): “To our knowledge, this approach is unique among the studies using CLPP and fulfills the suggestions made by Preston-Mafham et al. (2002).”
Changes in soil microbial community structure and metabolic activity following conversion from native Pinus massoniana plantations to exotic Eucalyptus plantations (2013, background): “Despite the BIOLOG MicroPlates not necessarily giving a complete metabolic fingerprint of the soil microbial communities, only representing certain metabolic functions in the MicroPlates, the outcomes reflected the patterns of carbon source utilization (Preston-Mafham et al., 2002; Zheng et al., 200”
Rapid effects of plant species diversity and identity on soil microbial communities in experimental grassland ecosystems (2006, background): “, 1995), we can consider them to be a useful indicator group for measuring the effects of plant diversity on the microbial communities in grasslands ecosystems (Preston-Mafham et al., 2002).”
The impact of ice melting on bacterioplankton in the Arctic Ocean (2010, methodology): “Although the methodology has certain limits, which are critically reviewed in Preston-Mafham et al. (2002) , Biolog Ecoplates have been successfully used to asses the utilization of carbon sources in freshwater (Sinsabaugh and Foreman 2001; Christian and Lind 2006; Comte and Del Giorgio 2009) and m”
Identifying the characteristics of organic soil amendments that suppress soilborne plant diseases. (2010, result): “This is in agreement with the observation that this method is more useful for relative comparison among samples, rather than for community characterization (Preston-Mafham et al., 2002).”