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Simulating Groundcover Community Assembly in a Frequently Burned Ecosystem Using a Simple Neutral Model [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 Fire is a keystone process that drives patterns of biodiversity globally. In frequently burned fire-dependent ecosystems, surface fire regimes allow for the coexistence of high plant diversity at fine scales even where soils are uniform.
E. Louise Loudermilk +9 more
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Global Ecology and ConservationRecent theoretical work suggests that rainforest biotas are not primarily structured by environmental determinism but rather by stochastic processes. We sampled butterflies from primary and disturbed (logged, and burnt) forest landscapes and compared ...
Daniel F.R. Cleary +3 more
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How to quantify immigration from community abundance data using the neutral community model. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ABiological communities are connected through dispersal, which regulates diversity across local and regional scales. However, dispersal is difficult to measure directly, limiting what is known about dispersal’s impact on species composition in complex communities.
Rafay R, Jones EW, Sivak DA, Fowler SJ.
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Gut-associated microbes can influence insect health and fitness. Understanding the structure of bacterial communities provides valuable insights on how different species may be selected and their functional characteristics in their hosts.
Sali Li +14 more
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Communication-free and Parallel Simulation of Neutral Biodiversity Models
CoRR, 2021 We present a novel communication-free algorithm for individual-based probabilistic neutral biodiversity simulations. The algorithm transforms a neutral Moran ecosystem model into an embarrassingly parallel problem by trading off inter-process communication at the cost of some redundant computation.
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Evolutionary Applications, 2021 The human microbiome consists of five major regional biomes distributed in or on our five body sites including skin, oral, lung, gut, and reproductive tract.
Zhanshan (Sam) Ma
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Does colorectal cancer significantly influence the assembly of gut microbial communities? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third commonest malignant tumor. Previous studies have revealed that the composition change of the human gut microbiome, measured by community diversity, is associated with the progression of CRC.
Lin Dai +5 more
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Assessing mechanisms for microbial taxa and community dynamics using process models
mLife, 2023 Disentangling the assembly mechanisms controlling community composition, structure, distribution, functions, and dynamics is a central issue in ecology. Although various approaches have been proposed to examine community assembly mechanisms, quantitative
Linwei Wu +9 more
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Journal of Fungi, 2021 In soil ecosystems, fungi exhibit diverse biodiversity and play an essential role in soil biogeochemical cycling. Fungal diversity and assembly processes across soil strata along altitudinal gradients are still unclear. In this study, we investigated the
Sarfraz Hussain +6 more
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Self-consistent approach for neutral community models with speciation
Physical Review E, 2010 Hubbell's neutral model provides a rich theoretical framework to study ecological communities. By incorporating both ecological and evolutionary time scales, it allows us to investigate how communities are shaped by speciation processes. The speciation model in the basic neutral model is particularly simple, describing speciation as a point-mutation ...
Haegeman, Bart, Etienne, Rampal
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