Imperial College London
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ProfessorThomasBell

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Professor of Microbial Ecology
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2268thomas.bell

 
 
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MunroSilwood Park

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Zhang:2019:10.1007/s00248-018-1284-z,
author = {Zhang, F-G and Bell, T and Zhang, Q-G},
doi = {10.1007/s00248-018-1284-z},
journal = {Microbial Ecology},
pages = {905--912},
title = {Experimental testing of dispersal limitation in soil bacterial communities with a propagule addition approach},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-018-1284-z},
volume = {77},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The role of dispersal in the assembly of microbial communities remains contentious. This study tested the importance of dispersal limitation for the structuring of local soil bacterial communities using an experimental approach of propagule addition. Microbes extracted from soil pooled from samples collected at 20 localities across ~ 400 km in a temperate steppe were added to microcosms of local soils at three sites; the microcosms were then incubated in situ for 3 months. We then assessed the composition and diversity of bacterial taxa in the soils using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. The addition of the regional microbial pool did not cause significant changes in the overall composition or diversity of the total bacterial community, although a very small number of individual taxa may have been affected by the addition treatment. Our results suggest a negligible role of dispersal limitation in structuring soil bacterial communities in our study area.
AU  - Zhang,F-G
AU  - Bell,T
AU  - Zhang,Q-G
DO  - 10.1007/s00248-018-1284-z
EP  - 912
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 0095-3628
SP  - 905
TI  - Experimental testing of dispersal limitation in soil bacterial communities with a propagule addition approach
T2  - Microbial Ecology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-018-1284-z
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30417222
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/68459
VL  - 77
ER  -
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