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The ISME Journal (2013), 1–10 2013 International Society for Microbial Ecology All rights reserved 1751-7362/13 /ismej ORIGINAL ARTICLE Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance 1 1,2 1,2 1 1 Scott Ferrenberg , Sean P O’Neill , Joseph E Knelman , Bryan Todd , Sam Duggan , 1 1 1 1,2 Daniel Bradley , Taylor Robinson , Steven K Schmidt , Alan R Townsend , 2,3 4 1 5 Mark W Williams , Cory C Cleveland , Brett A Melbourne , Lin Jiang and Diana R Nemergut2,6 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; 2Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; 3Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; 4Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA; 5School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA and 6Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Although recent work has shown that both deterministic and stochastic processes are important in structuring microbial communities, the factors that affect the relative contributions of niche and neutral processes are poorly understood. The macrobiological literature indicates that ecological