Disturbance During Biofilm Community Succession Promotes Cooperation and Diversity
James P. Stratford, Douglas M. Hodgson, Nelli J. Beecroft, Ann Smith, Julian R. Marchesi, Claudio Avignone-Rossa
The paper applies a diversity-disturbance framework to microbial biofilm succession, showing that disturbance levels determine whether communities become low diversity generalist-dominated or high diversity cooperative-specialist.
bioRxiv · Jun 21, 2018 · PreprintEcology