| Title |
Defining Disturbance for Microbial Ecology
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Microbial Ecology, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00248-017-0956-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Craig J. Plante |
| Abstract |
Disturbance can profoundly modify the structure of natural communities. However, microbial ecologists' concept of "disturbance" has often deviated from conventional practice. Definitions (or implicit usage) have frequently included climate change and other forms of chronic environmental stress, which contradict the macrobiologist's notion of disturbance as a discrete event that removes biomass. Physical constraints and disparate biological characteristics were compared to ask whether disturbances fundamentally differ in microbial and macroorganismal communities. A definition of "disturbance" for microbial ecologists is proposed that distinguishes from "stress" and other competing terms, and that is in accord with definitions accepted by plant and animal ecologists. |
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| United States | 4 | 40% |
| China | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| Mexico | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 3 | 30% |
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| Scientists | 6 | 60% |
| Members of the public | 4 | 40% |
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| Unknown | 100 | 100% |
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| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 28 | 28% |
| Researcher | 19 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 15% |
| Unknown | 14 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 39 | 39% |
| Environmental Science | 20 | 20% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 10% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 5% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Unknown | 18 | 18% |
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