title: Local-global overlap in diversity informs mechanisms of bacterial biogeography.
abstract: Spatial variation in environmental conditions and barriers to organism movement are thought to be important factors for generating endemic species, thus enhancing global diversity. Recent microbial ecology research suggested that the entire diversity of bacteria in the global oceans could be recovered at a single site, thus inferring a lack of bacterial endemism. We argue this is not the case in the global ocean, but might be in other bacterial ecosystems with higher dispersal rates and lower global diversity, like the human gut. We quantified the degree to which local and global bacterial diversity overlap in a diverse set of ecosystems. Upon comparison of observed local-global diversity overlap with predictions from a neutral biogeography model, human-associated microbiomes (gut, skin, mouth) behaved much closer to neutral expectations whereas soil, lake and marine communities deviated strongly from the neutral expectations. This is likely a result of differences in dispersal rate among 'patches', global diversity of these systems, and local densities of bacterial cells. It appears that overlap of local and global bacterial diversity is surprisingly large (but likely not one-hundred percent), and most importantly this overlap appears to be predictable based upon traditional biogeographic parameters like community size, global diversity, inter-patch environmental heterogeneity and patch connectivity.
authors.affiliation: Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Joshua A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Livermore
authors.affiliation: Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, USA.|Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Stuart E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria; D044822:Biodiversity; D017753:Ecosystem; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology; D060106:Lakes; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D064307:Microbiota; D009055:Mouth / Q000382:microbiology; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D010802:Phylogeny; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology; D013045:Species Specificity; D014871:Water Microbiology
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