ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Community coalescence: an eco-evolutionary perspective.
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- Diversity of fungi attached to birds corresponds to the habitat ecologies of their avian dispersal vectors.Annals of botany · 2025Article
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- Interplay of ecological processes modulates microbial community reassembly following coalescence.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Niche creation improves bioaugmentation of an organic micropollutant degrader in oligotrophic waters.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Insights into the biotic factors driving the outcome of coalescence events between soil bacterial communities.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Dispersal shapes compositional and functional diversity in aquatic microbial communities.mSystems · 2024Article
- Influences of Community Coalescence on the Assembly of Bacterial Communities of the Small-Scale Complex Aquatic System from the Perspective of Bacterial Transmission, Core Taxa, and Co-occurrence Patterns.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
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- Contrary effects of increasing temperatures on the spread of antimicrobial resistance in river biofilms.mSphere · 2024Article
- Drivers and consequences of microbial community coalescence.The ISME journal · 2024Review
- The ecology of scale: impact of volume on coalescence and function in methanogenic communities.Interface focus · 2023Article
- Experimental Evidence for Manure-Borne Bacteria Invasion in Soil During a Coalescent Event: Influence of the Antibiotic Sulfamethazine.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Disturbance by soil mixing decreases microbial richness and supports homogenizing community assembly processes.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2022Article
- Whole community invasions and the integration of novel ecosystems.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Community coalescence, the mixing of different communities, is widespread throughout microbial ecology. Coalescence can result in approximately equal contributions from the founding communities or dominance of one community over another. These different outcomes have ramifications for community structure and function in natural communities, and the use of microbial communities in biotechnology and medicine. However, we have little understanding of when a particular outcome might be expected. Here, we integrate existing theory and data to speculate on how a crucial characteristic of microbial communities-the type of species interaction that dominates the community-might affect the outcome of microbial community coalescence. Given the often comparable timescales of microbial ecology and microevolution, we explicitly consider ecological and evolutionary dynamics, and their interplay, in determining coalescence outcomes. This article is part of the theme issue 'Conceptual challenges in microbial community ecology'.
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