Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?

J Zhou, D Ning - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

Fungi as mediators linking organisms and ecosystems

M Bahram, T Netherway - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fungi form a major and diverse component of most ecosystems on Earth. They are both
micro and macroorganisms with high and varying functional diversity as well as great …

Stochastic processes shape microeukaryotic community assembly in a subtropical river across wet and dry seasons

W Chen, K Ren, A Isabwe, H Chen, M Liu, J Yang - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Background The deep mechanisms (deterministic and/or stochastic processes) underlying
community assembly are a central challenge in microbial ecology. However, the relative …

Abundant fungi adapt to broader environmental gradients than rare fungi in agricultural fields

S Jiao, Y Lu - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soil communities are intricately linked to ecosystem functioning, and a predictive
understanding of how communities assemble in response to environmental change is of …

Distinct patterns and processes of abundant and rare eukaryotic plankton communities following a reservoir cyanobacterial bloom

Y Xue, H Chen, JR Yang, M Liu, B Huang… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Plankton communities normally consist of few abundant and many rare species, yet little is
known about the ecological role of rare planktonic eukaryotes. Here we used a 18S …

Global airborne bacterial community—interactions with Earth's microbiomes and anthropogenic activities

J Zhao, L **, D Wu, J ** marine bacterial versus protist communities
W Wu, HP Lu, A Sastri, YC Yeh, GC Gong… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A central challenge in microbial ecology is to understand the underlying mechanisms driving
community assembly, particularly in the continuum of species sorting and dispersal …

Biogeographic patterns of abundant and rare bacterioplankton in three subtropical bays resulting from selective and neutral processes

Y Mo, W Zhang, J Yang, Y Lin, Z Yu, S Lin - The ISME journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Unraveling the relative importance of ecological processes regulating microbial community
structure is a central goal in microbial ecology. Here, we used high-throughput sequencing …