Habitat Fragmentation Drives Plant Community Assembly Processes across Life Stages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Habitat fragmentation is one of the principal causes of biodiversity loss and hence understanding its impacts on community assembly and disassembly is an important topic in ecology.
Guang Hu, Kenneth J Feeley, Mingjian Yu
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Local and regional processes in community assembly. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Controversy on whether local (deterministic) or regional (stochastic) factors control the structure of communities persists after decades of research. The main reason for why it has not been resolved may lie in the nature of evidence which largely comes ...
Juan C Márquez, Jurek Kolasa
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Host Species and Geography Differentiate Honeybee Gut Bacterial Communities by Changing the Relative Contribution of Community Assembly Processes. [PDF]
mBio, 2021 Honeybees provide crucial pollination services and valuable apiarian products. The symbiotic intestinal communities facilitate honeybee health and fitness by promoting nutrient assimilation, detoxifying toxins, and resisting pathogens.
Ge Y, Jing Z, Diao Q, He JZ, Liu YJ.
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Distinct Community Assembly Processes of Abundant and Rare Soil Bacteria in Coastal Wetlands along an Inundation Gradient. [PDF]
mSystems, 2020 Coastal wetlands are one of the important ecosystems that play a crucial role in the regulation of climate change. Rare taxa (RT) exist in one habitat along with abundant taxa (AT).
Gao GF +4 more
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Community Assembly Processes of the Microbial Rare Biosphere. [PDF]
Trends in Microbiology, 2018 Our planet teems with microorganisms that often present a skewed abundance distribution in a local community, with relatively few dominant species coexisting alongside a high number of rare species.
Xiu Jia +2 more
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Estimating and Mapping Ecological Processes Influencing Microbial Community Assembly [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Ecological community assembly is governed by a combination of (i) selection resulting from among-taxa differences in performance; (ii) dispersal resulting from organismal movement; and (iii) ecological drift resulting from stochastic changes in ...
James C Stegen +3 more
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Dual community assembly processes in dryland biocrust communities [PDF]
Functional Ecology, 2020 Both authors acknowledge support from the Hermon Slade Foundation Grant no. HSF13/1. S.S. was supported by the Spanish Government under the Ramon y Cajal contract (RYC-2016-20604).
S. Soliveres, D. Eldridge
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Diversity and geochemical community assembly processes of the living rare biosphere in a sand-and-gravel aquifer ecosystem in the Midwestern United States. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Natural microbial communities consist of a limited number of abundant species and an extraordinarily diverse population of rare species referred to as the rare biosphere.
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Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China. [PDF]
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Habitat heterogeneity induced by pyrogenic organic matter in wildfire-perturbed soils mediates bacterial community assembly processes. [PDF]
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