ReviewEcology letters2021
Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host-microbe theory.
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- Host plant phylogeny predicts arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities, but plant life history and fungal genetic change predict feedback.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Region-Specific Gut Microbiome Variation Between Changle Geese and Yellow-Feathered Broilers: Correlations with Growth and Intestinal Development.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Application of Microbiome Feedback Theory to Animals: Can Parasites Drive Coexistence in Ungulate Communities?Integrative and comparative biology · 2025Article
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Symbiotic microbial population composition ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Dilution of specialist pathogens drives productivity benefits from diversity in plant mixtures.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Rapid differentiation of soil and root microbiomes in response to plant composition and biodiversity in the field.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Towards defining the core Saccharum microbiome: input from five genotypes.BMC microbiology · 2022Article
- No robust multispecies coexistence in a canonical model of plant-soil feedbacks.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- A quantitative synthesis of soil microbial effects on plant species coexistence.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- A strategic model of a host-microbe-microbe system reveals the importance of a joint host-microbe immune response to combat stress-induced gut dysbiosis.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Microbiome influence on host community dynamics: Conceptual integration of microbiome feedback with classical host-microbe theory.Ecology letters · 2021Review
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Abstract
Microbiomes have profound effects on host fitness, yet we struggle to understand the implications for host ecology. Microbiome influence on host ecology has been investigated using two independent frameworks. Classical ecological theory powerfully represents mechanistic interactions predicting environmental dependence of microbiome effects on host ecology, but these models are notoriously difficult to evaluate empirically. Alternatively, host-microbiome feedback theory represents impacts of microbiome dynamics on host fitness as simple net effects that are easily amenable to experimental evaluation. The feedback framework enabled rapid progress in understanding microbiomes' impacts on plant ecology, and can also be applied to animal hosts. We conceptually integrate these two frameworks by deriving expressions for net feedback in terms of mechanistic model parameters. This generates a precise mapping between net feedback theory and classic population modelling, thereby merging mechanistic understanding with experimental tractability, a necessary step for building a predictive understanding of microbiome influence on host ecology.
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