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A framework for integrating microbial dispersal modes into soil ecosystem ecology.
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- Assessing the speed of individual bacteria dispersing on mycelial networks.Evolutionary ecology · 2025Article
- Synthetic microbiology in sustainability applications.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Review
- Relative dispersion ratios following fecal microbiota transplant elucidate principles governing microbial migration dynamics.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Niche breadth specialization impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- The temperate forest phyllosphere and rhizosphere microbiome: a case study of sugar maple.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- A Novel Subcluster of Closely RelatedViruses · 2023Article
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- Towards quantifying microbial dispersal in the environment.Environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Attribution of dispersal limitation can better explain the assembly patterns of plant microbiota.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Environmental micro-niche filtering shapes bacterial pioneer communities during primary colonization of a Himalayas' glacier forefield.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Spatial turnover of soil viral populations and genotypes overlain by cohesive responses to moisture in grasslands.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
Dispersal is a fundamental community assembly process that maintains soil microbial biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales, yet the impact of dispersal on ecosystem function is largely unpredictable. Dispersal is unique in that it contributes to both ecological and evolutionary processes and is shaped by both deterministic and stochastic forces. The ecosystem-level ramifications of dispersal outcomes are further compounded by microbial dormancy dynamics and environmental selection. Here we review the knowledge gaps and challenges that remain in defining how dispersal, environmental filtering, and microbial dormancy interact to influence the relationship between microbial community structure and function in soils. We propose the classification of microbial dispersal into three categories, through vegetative or active cells, through dormant cells, and through acellular dispersal, each with unique spatiotemporal dynamics and microbial trait associations. This conceptual framework should improve the integration of dispersal in defining soil microbial community structure-function relationships.
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