Next‐generation experiments linking community structure and ecosystem functioning

Bell, Thomas

doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12711

Cited by 24 publications

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“…2015; Goldford et al . 2018; Bell 2019), but it is rarely established whether the species coexist such that the community is stable. Here, we document this in a model 5 species community and confirm that its constituent species can coexist across all combinations of species and diversity.…”

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Characterising a stable five-species microbial community for use in experimental evolution and ecology

Padfield

Castledine

Pennycook

et al. 2020

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23The ability of species to mutually invade from rare is the defining measure of species 24 coexistence. However, it is unknown whether invasion growth rates predict any characteristic 25 of long-term community dynamics. Here, we use a model five-species microbial community 26 to investigate the link between short-term growth rate and long-term relative abundance. We 27 manipulated diversity and tested the ability of species to coexist in different combinations. 28Across all diversity levels and species combinations, populations re-established from rare in 29 71 of 75 combinations and all combinations were stable in long-term culture. Moreover, short-30 term relative invader growth rate was positively associated with long-term equilibrium 31 proportion, despite large variation in interactions between species and communities. This 32 finding was confirmed using a modelling approach and suggests that the short-term invasion 33 growth rate can predict long-term relative abundance within that community. 34 56 both support (Martínez-Meyer et al. 2013) and refute (Dallas & Hastings 2018) the niche 57 centrality hypothesis across animal and plant communities. Recent theory has highlighted why 58 this macroecological relationship may not be ubiquitous, with spatial and temporal variation 59 3 and metapopulation dynamics potentially causing this relationship to break down (Holt 2019; 60

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Characterising a stable five-species microbial community for use in experimental evolution and ecology

Padfield

Castledine

Pennycook

et al. 2020

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“…Innovations in advanced cooling technology are facilitating methodologies to preserve non‐culturable fungi. This is an exciting area of developing research associated with the need to develop infrastructure to support the microbiome research community (Bell, 2019; Ryan et al., 2019).…”

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Plant and fungal collections: Current status, future perspectives

Paton

Antonelli

Carine

et al. 2020

Plants People Planet

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“…At the functional level, the removal of a single critical microbial component due to the application of a non-optimized storage approach could irreversibly affect the integrity of the system. Bell [7] quoted Adams [8] 'If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat', and this is an important issue when endeavoring to conserve a microbiome sample. How would you distinguish a 'whisker' from a 'heart' and assess what a component does in the…”

Section: Preservation and Storagementioning

confidence: 99%