Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …
Rethinking community assembly through the lens of coexistence theory
J HilleRisLambers, PB Adler… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Although research on the role of competitive interactions during community assembly began
decades ago, a recent revival of interest has led to new discoveries and research …
decades ago, a recent revival of interest has led to new discoveries and research …
A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming
Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …
Soil pH mediates the balance between stochastic and deterministic assembly of bacteria
Little is known about the factors affecting the relative influences of stochastic and
deterministic processes that govern the assembly of microbial communities in successional …
deterministic processes that govern the assembly of microbial communities in successional …
Spatial scale affects the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities in wheat fields across the North China Plain
Y Shi, Y Li, X ** ecological processes influencing microbial community assembly
JC Stegen, X Lin, JK Fredrickson… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Ecological community assembly is governed by a combination of (i) selection resulting from
among-taxa differences in performance;(ii) dispersal resulting from organismal movement; …
among-taxa differences in performance;(ii) dispersal resulting from organismal movement; …
Quantifying community assembly processes and identifying features that impose them
Spatial turnover in the composition of biological communities is governed by (ecological)
Drift, Selection and Dispersal. Commonly applied statistical tools cannot quantitatively …
Drift, Selection and Dispersal. Commonly applied statistical tools cannot quantitatively …
Stochastic and deterministic assembly processes in subsurface microbial communities
JC Stegen, X Lin, AE Konopka… - The ISME journal, 2012 - academic.oup.com
A major goal of microbial community ecology is to understand the forces that structure
community composition. Deterministic selection by specific environmental factors is …
community composition. Deterministic selection by specific environmental factors is …
Deterministic transition of enterotypes shapes the infant gut microbiome at an early age
Background The succession of the gut microbiota during the first few years plays a vital role
in human development. We elucidate the characteristics and alternations of the infant gut …
in human development. We elucidate the characteristics and alternations of the infant gut …
Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes
Increasing evidence has emerged for non-random spatial distributions of microbes, but
knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among …
knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among …