聚结(物理)
术语
生态学
概念框架
微生物种群生物学
溯祖理论
生物
社会学
社会科学
细菌
天体生物学
语言学
遗传学
生物化学
基因
哲学
系统发育树
作者
Matthias C. Rillig,Janis Antonovics,Tancredi Caruso,Anika Lehmann,Jeff R. Powell,Stavros D. Veresoglou,Erik Verbruggen
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.004
摘要
Microbial communities are enigmatically diverse. We propose a novel view of processes likely affecting microbial assemblages, which could be viewed as the Great American Interchange en miniature: the wholesale exchange among microbial communities resulting from moving pieces of the environment containing entire assemblages. Incidental evidence for such 'community coalescence' is accumulating, but such processes are rarely studied, likely because of the absence of suitable terminology or a conceptual framework. We provide the nucleus for such a conceptual foundation for the study of community coalescence, examining factors shaping these events, links to bodies of ecological theory, and we suggest modeling approaches for understanding coalescent communities. We argue for the systematic study of community coalescence because of important functional and applied consequences.
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