BACKGROUND Microbial communities—microbiomes—are intricately linked to human health and critical ecosystem services. New technologies allow the rapid characterization of …
Little is known about the factors affecting the relative influences of stochastic and deterministic processes that govern the assembly of microbial communities in successional …
Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …
INTRODUCTION Individual processes that shape geographical patterns of biodiversity are increasingly understood, but their complex interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales …
Ecological succession and the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes are two major themes within microbial ecology, but these conceptual domains have mostly …
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; …
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 …
F Keck, F Rimet, A Bouchez, A Franc - Ecology and evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic signal is the tendency for closely related species to display similar trait values as a consequence of their phylogenetic proximity. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are …