Strong Dispersal Limitation of Microbial Communities at Shackleton Glacier, Antarctica

Because of their diversity and ubiquity, microbes provide an excellent means to tease apart how natural communities are structured. In general, ecologists believe that stochastic assembly processes, like random drift and dispersal, should dominate in benign environments while deterministic processes...

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Published in:mSystems
Main Authors: Lemoine, Nathan P., Adams, Byron J., Diaz, Melisa, Dragone, Nicholas B., Franco, André L. C., Fierer, Noah, Lyons, W. Berry, Hogg, Ian D., Wall, Diana H.
Other Authors: Lurgi, Miguel, NSF Polar Programs, NSF | BIO | Division of Environmental Biology, NSF GRFP
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023
Subjects:
Antarc*
Antarctica
Shackleton Glacier
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01254-22
https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/msystems.01254-22
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Summary:Because of their diversity and ubiquity, microbes provide an excellent means to tease apart how natural communities are structured. In general, ecologists believe that stochastic assembly processes, like random drift and dispersal, should dominate in benign environments while deterministic processes, like environmental filtering, should be prevalent in harsh environments.

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