Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 797-804

  Fierer, Noah ^a   Mccain, Christy M ^a   Meir, Patrick ^b   Zimmermann, Michael ^b,c   Rapp, Joshua M ^d   Silman, Miles R ^d   Knight, Rob ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA genes; Bacterial diversity; Montane diversity gradient; Phyllosphere bacteria; Pyrosequencing; Soil bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; MONTANE FOREST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PERU; PLANT;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; PERU; PLANTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

PERU;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79955673720     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1170.1     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Baker, K. L., S. Langenheder, G. W. Nicol, D. Ricketts, K. Killham, C. D. Campbell, and J. I. Prosser. 2009. Environmental and spatial characterisation of bacterial community composition in soil to inform sampling strategies. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41:2292-2298.
2. Brown, J. H., J. F. Gillooly, A. P. Allen, V. M. Savage, and G. B. West. 2004. Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology 85:1771-1789. (Pubitemid 39188101)
3. Bryant, J. A., C. Lamanna, H. Morlon, A. J. Kerkhoff, B. J. Enquist, and J. L. Green. 2008. Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:11505-11511.
4. Cardelus, C. L., R. K. Colwell, and J. E. Watkins. 2006. Vascular epiphyte distribution patterns: Explaining the midelevation richness peak. Journal of Ecology 94:144-156.
5. Chown, S. L., and K. J. Gaston. 2000. Areas, cradles and museums: The latitudinal gradient in species richness. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:311-315. (Pubitemid 30484254)
6. Chu, H., N. Fierer, C. Lauber, J. Caporaso, R. Knight, and P. Grogan. 2010. Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic is not fundamentally different from that found in other biomes. Environmental Microbiology 12:2998-3006.
7. Clarke, K., and R. Gorley. 2006. PRIMER. PRIMER-E, Plymouth, UK.
8. Colwell, R., C. Rahbek, and N. J. Gotelli. 2004. The middomain effect and species richness patterns: What we have learned so far? American Naturalist 163:E1-E23.
9. Corby-Harris, V., A. C. Pontaroli, L. J. Shimkets, J. L. Bennetzen, K. E. Habel, and D. E. L. Promislow. 2007. Geographical distribution and diversity of bacteria associated with natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:3470-3479. (Pubitemid 46871434)
10. Costello, E., C. Lauber, M. Hamady, N. Fierer, J. Gordon, and R. Knight. 2009. Bacterial community variation in human body habitats across space and time. Science 326:1694-1697.
11. Currie, D. J. 1991. Energy and large-scale patterns of animal species and plant species richness. American Naturalist 137:27-49.
12. Faith, D. P. 1992. Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity. Biological Conservation 61:1-10.
13. Fierer, N., M. Hamady, C. Lauber, and R. Knight. 2008. The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:17994-17999.
14. Fierer, N., and R. Jackson. 2006. The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103:626-631. (Pubitemid 43153076)
15. Fierer, N., C. Lauber, M. Hamady, N. Zhou, D. McDonald, E. Costello, and R. Knight. 2010. Forensic identification using skin bacterial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107:6477-6481.
16. Fuhrman, J. A., J. A. Steele, I. Hewson, M. S. Schwalbach, M. V. Brown, J. L. Green, and J. H. Brown. 2008. A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:7774-7778. (Pubitemid 351872714)
17. Gaston, K. J. 2000. Global patterns in biodiversity. Nature 405:220-227. (Pubitemid 30313545)
18. Girardin, C. A. L., D. Gurdak, L. Aragão, A. Rozas-Dávila, W. Huasco, W. Farfan Rios, M. R. Silman, D. Metcalfe, J. Silva-Espejo, N. Salinas Revilla, and Y. Malhi. In press. Net primary productivity allocation and cycling of carbon along a tropical forest elevational transect in the Peruvian Andes. Global Change Biology [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010. 02235.x]
19. Hamady, M., J. Walker, J. Harris, N. Gold, and R. Knight. 2008. Error-correcting barcoded primers allow hundreds of samples to be pyrosequenced in multiplex. Nature Methods 5:235-237. (Pubitemid 351325646)
20. Hawkins, B., R. Field, H. Cornell, D. Currie, J. Guegan, D. Kaufman, J. Kerr, G. Mittelbach, T. Oberdorff, E. O'Brien, E. Porter, and J. Turner. 2003. Energy, water, and broadscale geographic patterns of species richness. Ecology 84:3105-3117. (Pubitemid 38261402)
21. Herzog, S. K., M. Kessler, and K. Bach. 2005. The elevational gradient in Andean bird species richness at the local scale: A foothill peak and a high-elevation plateau. Ecography 28:209-222.
22. Humbert, J. F., U. Dorigo, P. Cecchi, B. Le Berre, D. Debroas, and M. Bouvy. 2009. Comparison of the structure and composition of bacterial communities from temperate and tropical freshwater ecosystems. Environmental Microbiology 11:2339-2350.
23. Jesus, E. D., T. L. Marsh, J. M. Tiedje, and F. M. D. Moreira. 2009. Changes in land use alter the structure of bacterial communities in Western Amazon soils. ISME Journal 3:1004-1011.
24. Jones, R. T., M. S. Robeson, C. L. Lauber, M. Hamady, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2009. A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses. ISME Journal 3:442-453.
25. Lauber, C., R. Knight, M. Hamady, and N. Fierer. 2009. Soil pH as a predictor of soil bacterial community structure at the continental scale: A pyrosequencing-based assessment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75:5111-5120.
26. Lomolino, M. 2001. Elevation gradients of species-density: Historical and prospective views. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10:3-13.
27. Lomolino, M., B. Riddle, and J. Brown. 2006. Biogeography. Third ed. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.
28. Lozupone, C., M. Hamady, S. Kelley, and R. Knight. 2007. Quantitative and qualitative b diversity measures lead to different insights into factors that structure microbial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:1576-1585. (Pubitemid 46417883)
29. Lozupone, C., M. Hamady, and R. Knight. 2006. UniFrac: An online tool for comparing microbial community diversity in a phylogenetic context. BMC Bioinformatics 7:371.
30. McCain, C. M. 2005. Elevational gradients in diversity of small mammals. Ecology 86:366-372. (Pubitemid 40356071)
31. McCain, C. 2007. Could temperature and water availability drive elevational species richness? A global case study for bats. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16:1-13. (Pubitemid 44961704)
32. McCain, C. M. 2009. Global analysis of bird elevational diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18:346-360.
33. Meier, C., J. Rapp, R. Bowers, M. R. Silman, and N. Fierer. 2010. Fungal growth on a common wood substrate across a tropical elevation gradient: Temperature sensitivity, community composition, and potential for above-ground decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42:1083-1090.
34. Nogués-Bravo, D., M. B. Araú jo, T. S. Romdal, and C. Rahbek. 2008. Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients. Nature 453:216-220.
35. Patterson, B. D., D. F. Stotz, S. Solari, J. W. Fitzpatrick, and V. Pacheco. 1998. Contrasting patterns of elevational zonation for birds and mammals in the Andes of southeastern Peru. Journal of Biogeography 25:593-607. (Pubitemid 28436917)
36. Rahbek, C. 1995. The elevational gradient of species richness: A uniform pattern? Ecography 18:200-205.
37. Rahbek, C. 2005. The role of spatial scale and the perception of large-scale species-richness patterns. Ecology Letters 8:224-239. (Pubitemid 40218109)
38. Redford, A., R. Bowers, R. Knight, Y. Linhart, and N. Fierer. 2010. The ecology of the phyllosphere: Geographic and phylogenetic variability in the distribution of bacteria on tree leaves. Environmental Microbiology 12:2885-2893.
39. Rousk, J., E. Bååth, P. Brookes, C. Lauber, C. Lozupone, J. Caporaso, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2010. Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil. ISME Journal 4:1340-1351.
40. Rowe, R. J., and S. Lidgard. 2009. Elevational gradients and species richness: Do methods change pattern perception? Global Ecology and Biogeography 18:163-177.
41. Shaw, A. K., A. L. Halpern, K. Beeson, B. Tran, J. C. Venter, and J. B. H. Martiny. 2008. It's all relative: Ranking the diversity of aquatic bacterial communities. Environmental Microbiology 10:2200-2210.
42. Tedersoo, L., and K. Nara. 2010. General latitudinal gradient of biodiversity is reversed in ectomycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 185:351-354.
43. Wiens, J. J., and C. H. Graham. 2005. Niche conservatism: Integrating evolution, ecology, and conservation biology. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 36:519-539. (Pubitemid 43068869)
44. Wiens, J. J., C. H. Graham, D. S. Moen, S. A. Smith, and T. W. Reeder. 2006. Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient in hylid frogs: Treefrog trees unearth the roots of high tropical diversity. American Naturalist 168:579-596. (Pubitemid 44737195)
45. Wiens, J. J., G. Parra-Olea, M. García-París, and D. B. Wake. 2007. Phylogenetic history underlies elevational biodiversity patterns in tropical salamanders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274:919-928. (Pubitemid 47056741)
46. Willig, M., D. Kaufman, and R. Stevens. 2003. Latitudinal gradients of biodiversity: Pattern, process, scale, and synthesis. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 34:273-309. (Pubitemid 38171421)