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Polychaete mucopolysaccharide alters sediment microbial diversity and stimulates ammonia-oxidising functional groups (2018)
Journal Article
Dale, H., Taylor, J., Solan, M., Lam, P., & Cunliffe, M. (2019). Polychaete mucopolysaccharide alters sediment microbial diversity and stimulates ammonia-oxidising functional groups. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95(2), fiy234. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy234

Sediment nitrogen cycling is a network of microbially mediated biogeochemical processes that are vital in regulating ecosystem functioning. Mucopolysaccharides (mucus) are produced by many invertebrates and have the potential to be an important sourc... Read More about Polychaete mucopolysaccharide alters sediment microbial diversity and stimulates ammonia-oxidising functional groups.

Limited congruence exhibited across microbial, meiofaunal and macrofaunal benthic assemblages in a heterogeneous coastal environment (2018)
Journal Article
Cronin-O'Reilly, S., Taylor, J., Jermyn, I., Allcock, A., Cunliffe, M., & Johnson, M. (2018). Limited congruence exhibited across microbial, meiofaunal and macrofaunal benthic assemblages in a heterogeneous coastal environment. Scientific reports, 8(1), 15500. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33799-9

One of the most common approaches for investigating the ecology of spatially complex environments is to examine a single biotic assemblage present, such as macroinvertebrates. Underlying this approach are assumptions that sampled and unsampled taxa r... Read More about Limited congruence exhibited across microbial, meiofaunal and macrofaunal benthic assemblages in a heterogeneous coastal environment.

Active bacterioplankton community response to dissolved ‘free’ deoxyribonucleic acid (dDNA) in surface coastal marine waters (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, J., Bird, K., Widdicome, C., & Cunliffe, M. (2018). Active bacterioplankton community response to dissolved ‘free’ deoxyribonucleic acid (dDNA) in surface coastal marine waters. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(10), https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy132

Seawater contains dissolved ‘free’ DNA (dDNA) that is part of a larger <0.2 μm pool of DNA (D-DNA) including viruses and uncharacterised bound DNA. Previous studies have shown that bacterioplankton readily degrade dDNA and culture-based approaches... Read More about Active bacterioplankton community response to dissolved ‘free’ deoxyribonucleic acid (dDNA) in surface coastal marine waters.

Partitioning of soil phosphorus among arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees in tropical and subtropical forests (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Burslem, D., Taylor, J., Taylor, A., Khoo, E., Majalap-Lee, N., …Johnson, D. (2018). Partitioning of soil phosphorus among arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees in tropical and subtropical forests. Ecology Letters, 21(5), 713-723. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12939

Partitioning of soil phosphorus (P) pools has been proposed as a key mechanism maintaining plant diversity, but experimental support is lacking. Here, we provided different chemical forms of P to 15 tree species with contrasting root symbiotic relati... Read More about Partitioning of soil phosphorus among arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees in tropical and subtropical forests.