ArticleNature communications2012
Predator richness increases the effect of prey diversity on prey yield.
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45 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Temporal Dynamics and Adaptive Mechanisms of Microbial Communities: Divergent Responses and Network Interactions.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
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- Protozoa-enhanced conjugation frequency alters the dissemination of soil antibiotic resistance.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Protist size-dependent shifts of bacterial communities can reduce litter decomposition.ISME communications · 2025Article
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- Biotic interactions explain seasonal dynamics of the alpine soil microbiome.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Predation has a significant impact on the complexity and stability of microbial food webs in subalpine lakes.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Abrupt permafrost thaw triggers activity of copiotrophs and microbiome predators.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- Primary Succession Changes the Composition and Functioning of the Protist Community on Mine Tailings, Especially Phototrophic Protists.ACS environmental Au · 2022Article
- The impact of protozoa addition on the survivability of Bacillus inoculants and soil microbiome dynamics.ISME communications · 2022Article
- Fast quantification of gut bacterial species in cocultures using flow cytometry and supervised classification.ISME communications · 2022Article
- Protozoa populations are ecosystem engineers that shape prokaryotic community structure and function of the rumen microbial ecosystem.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Microbial Dispersal, Including Bison Dung Vectored Dispersal, Increases Soil Microbial Diversity in a Grassland Ecosystem.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Positive biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are generally attributed to two mechanisms: complementarity and selection. These mechanisms have been primarily examined using plant communities, whereas bacterial communities remain largely unexplored. Moreover, it remains uncertain how predation by single or multiple predators affects these mechanisms. Here using 465 bacterial microcosms, we show that multiple predation by protists results in positive bacterial diversity effects on bacterial yields (colony-forming units) possibly due to an increased complementarity and evenness among bacterial species. By mathematically partitioning the biodiversity effects, we demonstrate that competitive interactions in diverse communities are reduced and the growth of subdominant species is enhanced. We envisage that, including diversity gradients at other trophic levels, in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research is a key to understanding and managing ecosystem processes. Such level of manipulation can be achieved best in microbial model systems, which are powerful tools for fundamental hypothesis-driven experiments and the investigation of general ecological theories.
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