Forfeiting the founder effect: turnover defines biofilm community succession
C. J. Brislawn, E. B. Graham, K. Dana, P. Ihardt, S. J. Fansler, W. B. Chrisler, J. B. Cliff, J. C. Stegen, J. J. Moran, H. C. Bernstein
The paper investigates microbial community succession in a hypersaline mat, finding that turnover, not nestedness, shapes community structure and that deterministic and stochastic processes affect bacteria and eukaryotes differently.
bioRxiv · Apr 11, 2018Ecology