Editors
A.T. Bull
Document Type
Chapter
Publication Date
2004
Publication Title
Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting
Publisher
ASM Press
First page number:
225
Last page number:
231
Abstract
The topic of microbial biogeography is almost 100 years old, however, when confronted with questions about the existence and extent of endemism in the microbial world, many microbiologists respond with opinions and theoretical arguments rather than examples of well-conducted studies. We begin this chapter with an overview of this debate as it applies to free-living prokayotes in part because there are relatively few good microbial biogeography studies. Furthermore, the arguments help to frame microbial biogeography in the larger context of biodiversity in that if endemism is common, then many more species exist.
Keywords
Bacteria – Geographical distribution; Biogeography; Microbial ecology; Prokaryotes
Disciplines
Bacteriology | Biodiversity | Desert Ecology | Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology | Life Sciences | Microbiology
Language
English
Repository Citation
Hedlund, B. P.,
Staley, J. T.
(2004).
Microbial Endemism and Biogeography. In A.T. Bull,
Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting
225-231.
ASM Press.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/sls_fac_articles/120
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