Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?

J Zhou, D Ning - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2017 - journals.asm.org
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
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 …

A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

D Ning, M Yuan, L Wu, Y Zhang, X Guo, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Soil pH mediates the balance between stochastic and deterministic assembly of bacteria

BM Tripathi, JC Stegen, M Kim, K Dong… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Little is known about the factors affecting the relative influences of stochastic and
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; …

Quantifying community assembly processes and identifying features that impose them

JC Stegen, X Lin, JK Fredrickson, X Chen… - The ISME …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Spatial turnover in the composition of biological communities is governed by (ecological)
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 …

Deterministic transition of enterotypes shapes the infant gut microbiome at an early age

L **ao, J Wang, J Zheng, X Li, F Zhao - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes

J Wang, JI Shen, Y Wu, C Tu, J Soininen… - The ISME …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Increasing evidence has emerged for non-random spatial distributions of microbes, but
knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among …