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 …

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 …

Implications of soil microbial community assembly for ecosystem restoration: patterns, process, and potential

EB Graham, JE Knelman - Microbial ecology, 2023 - Springer
While it is now widely accepted that microorganisms provide essential functions in
restoration ecology, the nature of relationships between microbial community assembly and …

Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China

S Jiao, Y Yang, Y Xu, J Zhang, Y Lu - The ISME Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Revealing the linkages between community assembly and species coexistence, which is
crucial for the understanding of ecosystem diversity and functioning, is a fundamental but …

Diversity-triggered deterministic bacterial assembly constrains community functions

W Xun, W Li, W Xiong, Y Ren, Y Liu, Y Miao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A growing body of evidence suggests that microbial α-diversity (local species richness) may
have positive effects on ecosystem function. However, less attention has been paid to β …

Precipitation balances deterministic and stochastic processes of bacterial community assembly in grassland soils

L Yang, D Ning, Y Yang, N He, X Li, CR Cornell… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial biodiversity is crucial for maintaining ecosystem functions. As climate change
progresses at both global and regional scales, there is a need to understand microbial …

Two key features influencing community assembly processes at regional scale: initial state and degree of change in environmental conditions

Y Feng, R Chen, JC Stegen, Z Guo, J Zhang… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Belowground microbial communities strongly influence ecosystem function such that
predicting function may rely on understanding ecological processes that assemble …

Coupling bacterial community assembly to microbial metabolism across soil profiles

L Luan, C Liang, L Chen, H Wang, Q Xu, Y Jiang… - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Soil microbial community assembly is crucial for understanding the mechanisms of microbial
communities that regulate ecosystem-level functioning. The relative contributions of …

Influences of organic carbon speciation on hyporheic corridor biogeochemistry and microbial ecology

JC Stegen, T Johnson, JK Fredrickson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The hyporheic corridor (HC) encompasses the river–groundwater continuum, where the
mixing of groundwater (GW) with river water (RW) in the HC can stimulate biogeochemical …

Deterministic influences exceed dispersal effects on hydrologically‐connected microbiomes

EB Graham, AR Crump, CT Resch… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Subsurface groundwater‐surface water mixing zones (hyporheic zones) have enhanced
biogeochemical activity, but assembly processes governing subsurface microbiomes remain …