Emergent loss of microbial biodiversity with increasing resource diversity
Or Shalev, Xiaozhou Ye, Joachim Kilian, Stahl Mark, Christoph Ratzke
The paper shows that increasing resource diversity reduces microbial biodiversity due to intensified competition from physiological responses in microbial taxa.
Nature Ecology & Evolution · Jul 20, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology