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Thomas Bell
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 81
Citations - 6376
Thomas Bell is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 74 publications receiving 5340 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Bell include University of Chicago & Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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The contribution of species richness and composition to bacterial services
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that there is a decelerating relationship between community respiration and increasing bacterial diversity, and both synergistic interactions among bacterial species and the composition of the bacterial community are important in determining the level of ecosystem functioning.
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The bacterial biogeography of British soils.
Robert I. Griffiths,Bruce C. Thomson,Phillip James,Thomas Bell,Mark J. Bailey,Andrew S. Whiteley +5 more
TL;DR: A multi-scale spatial assessment of soil bacterial community profiles across Great Britain is presented, and the first landscape scale map of bacterial distributions across a nation is shown, concluding that broad scale surveys are useful in identifying distinct soil biomes comprising reproducible communities of dominant taxa.
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Competition, Not Cooperation, Dominates Interactions among Culturable Microbial Species
Kevin R. Foster,Thomas Bell +1 more
TL;DR: The extent of mutually positive interaction among bacterial strains isolated from a common aquatic environment is studied and it is shown that in pairwise species combinations, the great majority of interactions are net negative and there is no evidence that strong higher-order positive effects arise when more than two species are mixed together.
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Species Interactions Alter Evolutionary Responses to a Novel Environment
Diane Lawrence,Francesca Fiegna,Volker Behrends,Jacob G. Bundy,Albert B. Phillimore,Thomas Bell,Thomas Bell,Timothy G. Barraclough +7 more
TL;DR: Adaptation to a novel environment is altered by the presence of co-occurring species, which altered the functioning of the experimental ecosystems.
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Plant pathogens drive density‐dependent seedling mortality in a tropical tree
TL;DR: It is shown experimentally that pathogens from the Oomycota are associated with intense mortality in seedlings of a neotropical tree, Sebastiana longicuspis, suggesting that short-term observational studies may underestimate the intensity and form of pathogen-induced mortality.