SynthesisThe ISME journal2013
A meta-analysis of changes in bacterial and archaeal communities with time.
Synthesis in The ISME journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 169 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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169 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Sub-community-level network analysis reveals distinct microbial dynamics in a lake littoral sediment.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Rare Phyla, Such as CPR and DPANN, Shape Ecosystem-Level Microbial Community Structure Dissimilarities.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Distinct bacterial communities affiliated with two types of shredder-produced particles in streams.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Ecologists have long studied the temporal dynamics of plant and animal communities with much less attention paid to the temporal dynamics exhibited by microbial communities. As a result, we do not know if overarching temporal trends exist for microbial communities or if changes in microbial communities are generally predictable with time. Using microbial time series assessed via high-throughput sequencing, we conducted a meta-analysis of temporal dynamics in microbial communities, including 76 sites representing air, aquatic, soil, brewery wastewater treatment, human- and plant-associated microbial biomes. We found that temporal variability in both within- and between-community diversity was consistent among microbial communities from similar environments. Community structure changed systematically with time in less than half of the cases, and the highest rates of change were observed within ranges of 1 day to 1 month for all communities examined. Microbial communities exhibited species-time relationships (STRs), which describe the accumulation of new taxa to a community, similar to those observed previously for plant and animal communities, suggesting that STRs are remarkably consistent across a broad range of taxa. These results highlight that a continued integration of microbial ecology into the broader field of ecology will provide new insight into the temporal patterns of microbial and 'macro'-bial communities alike.
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