University of Groningen
Soil bacterial community assembly during succession
Jia, Xiu
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10.33612/diss.156586683
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Soil bacterial community
assembly during succession
The research presented in this thesis was carried out at the Microbial Ecological Clus-ter, which is part of the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES) of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Xiu Jia received a PhD grant from the China Scholarship Council (CSC), the Chinese Ministry of Education and a top-up PhD Scholarship from the University of Gronin-gen. The printing of this thesis was partly funded by the University of Groningen and the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen.
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Soil bacterial community assembly
during succession
PhD thesis
to obtain the degree of PhD at the University of Groningen
on the authority of the Rector Magnifi cus Prof. C. Wijmenga
and in accordance with the decision by the College of Deans.
This thesis will be defended in public on
Friday 12 February 2021 at 14.30 hours
By
Xiu Jia
born on 25 August 1990 in Inner Mongolia, China
Supervisors
Prof. J. Falcão Salles Prof. J.D. van Elsas
Co-supervisor
Dr. F. Dini-AndreoteAssessment Committee
Prof. T. Curtis Prof. B. Teusink Prof. R. EtienneContents
Chapter 1 General introduction 9
Chapter 2 Molecular methods to study microbial succession in soil 19
Chapter 3 Comparing the influence of assembly processes governing
bacterial community succession based on DNA and RNA data 33
Chapter 4 Community assembly processes of the microbial rare biosphere 57
Chapter 5 Unveiling the interplay of ecological processes shaping the bacterial rare biosphere 71
Chapter 6 Effect of dispersal by inundation on soil bacterial communities depends on soil developmental stage 99
Chapter 7 Synthesis 119
References 128
Summary and Nederlandse Samenvatting 148
Acknowledgements 155
About the author 158
