Microbial biogeography?

Microbial Endemism and Biogeography

The topic of microbial biogeography is almost 100 years old, however, when confronted with questions about the existence and extent of endemism in the microbial world, many microbiologists respond with opinions and theoretical arguments rather than examples of well-conducted studies. We begin this chapter with an overview of this debate as it ·applies to free-living prokaryotes in part because ...

Microbial Endemism and Biogeography

The topic of microbial biogeography is almost 100 years old, however, when confronted with questions about the existence and extent of endemism in the microbial world, many microbiologists respond with opinions and theoretical arguments rather than examples of well-conducted studies. We begin this chapter with an overview of this debate as it ·applies to free-living prokaryotes in part because ...

Microbial Eukaryote Diversity and Biogeography

M icrobial ecology has come of age. Microorganisms of all types are essential participants in virtually all biogeochemical processes on earth, a realization that has developed steadily during the last half-century. Moreover, the diversity of bacteria and archaea, revealed by oceanographers and marine bacteriologists through the cloning and sequencing of genes from natural water samples beginnin...

Microbial biogeography: patterns in microbial diversity across space and time

Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map

| We review the biogeography of microorganisms in light of the biogeography of macroorganisms. A large body of research supports the idea that free-living microbial taxa exhibit biogeographic patterns. Current evidence confirms that, as proposed by the Baas-Becking hypothesis, ‘the environment selects’ and is, in part, responsible for spatial variation in microbial diversity. However, recent st...