Assessing mechanisms for microbial taxa and community dynamics using process models.

ABSTRACT: Disentangling the assembly mechanisms controlling community composition, structure, distribution, functions, and dynamics is a central issue in ecology. Although various approaches have been proposed to examine community assembly mechanisms, quantitative characterization is challenging, particularly in microbial ecology. Here, we present a novel approach for quantitatively delineating community assembly mechanisms by combining the consumer-resource model with a neutral model in stochastic differential equations. Using time-series data from anaerobic bioreactors that target microbial 16S rRNA genes, we tested the applicability of three ecological models: the consumer-resource model, the neutral model, and the combined model. Our results revealed that model performances varied substantially

SUBMITTER: Wu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10989933 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature