EcologybioRxivPreprint
The core microbiome as a reproducible, data-driven abstraction, not a biological entity
Camilo Quiroga-González, Luis Daniel Prada‐Salcedo, Kezia Goldmann
The paper defines a core microbiome as a data-driven abstraction that preserves ecological information under dimensional reduction, showing it retains key patterns and functions despite low taxonomic diversity.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.15.751703