Relationship with microbial ecology

Trindade RC, Angelis DF (1995) Removal of azo dyes for Rhodotorula relationships with pH and substantivity index. 7th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Santos, S. Paulo, Brazil Abstract P3-24.86... 

What evidence exists that the niche affects microbial distributions We surveyed the literature for studies examining either niche or distribution for organisms with propagules < 1-2 mm. While many studies report ecological differences between species, we focused our search on those studies of quantitative niche characteristics that cause spatial segregation between species or result in apparent distributional boundaries at some scale. All studies we found consistently reported niche differences or local adaptation at intra- or interspecific levels, consistent with the fundamental niche in all cases and potentially related to the realised niche in a few cases (Table 15.1). Given that niche constraints on local persistence/occurrence have been observed for microbes, it is reasonable to expect that niche affects distribution of multiple microbial species, consistent with the environment selects portion of the EiE claim (and with much of evolutionary ecology). Tests for source-sink dynamics or dispersal limitation as alternative explanations of microbial niche-distribution relationships will require that the fundamental niche for a species is already... 

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