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The contribution of species richness and composition to bacterial services

Bell, Thomas, Newman, Jonathan A., Silverman, Bernard W., Turner, Sarah L., Lilley, Andrew K.·2005·Nature

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Bacterial communities provide important services. They break down pollutants, municipal waste and ingested food, and they are the primary means by which organic matter is recycled to plants and other autotrophs. However, the processes that determine the rate at which these services are supplied are only starting to be identified. Biodiversity influences the way in which ecosystems function, but the form of the relationship between bacterial biodiversity and functioning remains poorly understood. Here we describe a manipulative experiment that measured how biodiversity affects the functioning of communities containing up to 72 bacterial species constructed from a collection of naturally occurring culturable bacteria. The experimental design allowed us to manipulate large numbers of bacterial species selected at random from those that were culturable. We demonstrate that there is a decelerating relationship between community respiration and increasing bacterial diversity. We also show that both synergistic interactions among bacterial species and the composition of the bacterial community are important in determining the level of ecosystem functioning.

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Authors: Bell, T., Newman, J. A., Silverman, B. W., Turner, S. L., & Lilley, A. K.
Affiliations: University of Oxford (GB)
University of Guelph (CA)
Natural Environment Research Council (GB)
Corresponding author: Lilley, Andrew K.
ORCID: Bell, Thomas
Newman, Jonathan A.
Silverman, Bernard W.
Lilley, Andrew K.
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2005-08
Volume: 436
Issue: 7054
Pages: 1157-1160
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature03891
OpenAlex: W1991708537
Cited by: 950
References: 30
Citations by year: 2026: 20 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 65 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 75 · 2018: 56 · 2017: 53 · 2016: 59 · 2015: 59 · 2014: 48 · 2013: 46 · 2012: 48
FWCI: 18.73
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Keywords: bacterial diversity, species richness, bacterial community composition, ecosystem functioning, bacterial respiration, synergistic interaction, Fagus sylvatica, culturable bacteria, microbial communities
MeSH terms: Bacteria, Models, Biological, Species Specificity, Time Factors, Trees, Plant Leaves, Biomass, Cell Respiration, Biodiversity

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