disturbance promotes non-indigenous bacterial invasion in soil microcosms analysis of the roles of resource availability and community structure干扰促进非土著细菌侵入到土壤的微观分析的角色资源可用性和社区结构.pdfVIP

Disturbance Promotes Non-Indigenous Bacterial Invasion in Soil Microcosms: Analysis of the Roles of Resource Availability and Community Structure 1,2 2 2 2 2 Manqiang Liu , Lisa Bjørnlund , Regin Rønn , Søren Christensen , Flemming Ekelund * 1 Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, 2 Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark Abstract Background: Invasion-biology is largely based on non-experimental observation of larger organisms. Here, we apply an experimental approach to the subject. By using microbial-based microcosm-experiments, invasion-biology can be placed on firmer experimental, and hence, less anecdotal ground. A better understanding of the mechanisms that govern invasion- success of bacteria in soil communities will provide knowledge on the factors that hinder successful establishment of bacteria artificially inoculated into soil, e.g. for remediation purposes. Further, it will yield valuable information on general principles of invasion biology in other domains of life. Methodology/Principal Findings: Here, we studied invasion and establishment success of GFP-tagged Pseudomonas fluorescens DSM 50090 in laboratory microcosms during a 42-day period. We used soil heating to create a disturbance gradient, and hypothesized that increased disturbance would facilitate invasion; our experiments confirmed this hypothesis. We suggest that the key factors associated with the heating disturbance that explain the enhanced invasion success are i