'Everything is everywhere, but, the environment selects'; what did Baas Becking and Beijerinck really say?

By R. De Wit, T. Bouvier. Environmental Microbiology, 2006

728 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Molecular Biology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/bda7a4c298435dc13456b4b4b536ca73c6ebb7e3

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Environmental Engineering

In Molecular Biology

Citations in the corpus

Not all free‐living microorganisms have cosmopolitan distributions – the case of Nebela (Apodera) vas Certes (Protozoa: Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) (2007, background): “This idea is often attributed to Martinus Beijerinck, but several other workers reached similar conclusions about microbial biogeography in the late 19th century (Esteban & Finlay, 2002; de Wit & Bouvier, 2006).”
Invasive belowground mutualists of woody plants (2014, background): “2006; DeCant 2008). Increased N levels might be expected to have direct effects on other plant species, although Levine et al. (2004) found the evidence to be poorly demonstrated.”
Does size matter for dispersal distance (2007, background): “This position is descended from a long-standing maxim of microbiology ( de Wit & Bouvier, 2006 ) and supported by detailed analyses of diversity in selected sites (e.g.”
Diversity and Ecology of Eukaryotic Marine Phytoplankton (2012, background): “This statement still structures the ecological and evolutionary understanding of microbial distribution (De Wit & Bouvier, 2006).”
No biogeographical pattern for a root-associated fungal species complex (2011, background): “…(Fenchel & Finlay, 2004), leading to the hypothesis of Baas Becking that ‘everything DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00589.x © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd www.blackwellpublishing.com/geb160 is everywhere, but the environment selects’ (the EisE hypothesis) (de Wit & Bouvier, 2006; O’Malley, 2007).”
Quantifying community assembly processes and identifying features that impose them (2013, result): “However, we also find that Dispersal Limitation acting in concert with Drift can have a substantial influence over community composition, in contrast to the classic paradigm that ‘all microbes are everywhere’ (see de Wit and Bouvier, 2006; Martiny et al., 2006).”
Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic is not fundamentally different from that found in other biomes. (2010, background): “Dispersal limitation is often considered less important for microorganisms (Fenchel et al., 1997; Finlay and Clarke, 1999; Finlay, 2002), resulting in biogeographic patterns that primarily reflect selection by contemporary environmental conditions (Baas Becking, 1934; de Wit and Bouvier, 2006).”
Modelling the effect of size on the aerial dispersal of microorganisms (2012, neutral): “…the idea developed in the nascent field of microbial ecology that dispersal limitation was absent in microorganisms – this was famously expressed during the 1930s in the maxim, due to Laurens Baas Becking, that ‘Everything is everywhere, but, the environment selects’ (de Wit & Bouvier, 2006).”