Environmental fluctuations explain the universal decay of species-abundance correlations with phylogenetic distance.

ABSTRACT: Multiple ecological forces act together to shape the composition of microbial communities. Phyloecology approaches-which combine phylogenetic relationships between species with community ecology-have the potential to disentangle such forces but are often hard to connect with quantitative predictions from theoretical models. On the other hand, macroecology, which focuses on statistical patterns of abundance and diversity, provides natural connections with theoretical models but often neglects interspecific correlations and interactions. Here, we propose a unified framework combining both such approaches to analyze microbial communities. In particular, by using both cross-sectional and longitudinal metagenomic data for species abundances, we reveal the existence of an empirical macroecologic

SUBMITTER: Sireci M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10500273 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature