Investigating macroecological patterns in coarse-grained microbial communities using the stochastic logistic model of growth.

ABSTRACT: The structure and diversity of microbial communities are intrinsically hierarchical due to the shared evolutionary history of their constituents. This history is typically captured through taxonomic assignment and phylogenetic reconstruction, sources of information that are frequently used to group microbes into higher levels of organization in experimental and natural communities. Connecting community diversity to the joint ecological dynamics of the abundances of these groups is a central problem of community ecology. However, how microbial diversity depends on the scale of observation at which groups are defined has never been systematically examined. Here, we used a macroecological approach to quantitatively characterize the structure and diversity of microbial communities among dispar

SUBMITTER: Shoemaker WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10945690 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature