ArticleeLife2022
Particle foraging strategies promote microbial diversity in marine environments.
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- Slower swimming promotes chemotactic encounters between bacteria and small phytoplankton.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Spatial clustering of hosts can favor specialist parasites.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Interplay between particle size and microbial ecology in the gut microbiome.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Phase Transition to Chaos in Complex Ecosystems with Nonreciprocal Species-Resource Interactions.Physical review letters · 2024Article
- Phase transition to chaos in complex ecosystems with non-reciprocal species-resource interactions.ArXiv · 2024Article
- Interplay between particle size and microbial ecology in the gut microbiome.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- The active free-living bathypelagic microbiome is largely dominated by rare surface taxa.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Fine-scale diversity of microbial communities due to satellite niches in boom and bust environments.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Microbial foraging in patchy environments, where resources are fragmented into particles or pockets embedded in a large matrix, plays a key role in natural environments. In the oceans and freshwater systems, particle-associated bacteria can interact with particle surfaces in different ways: some colonize only during short transients, while others form long-lived, stable colonies. We do not yet understand the ecological mechanisms by which both short- and long-term colonizers can coexist. Here, we address this problem with a mathematical model that explains how marine populations with different detachment rates from particles can stably coexist. In our model, populations grow only while on particles, but also face the increased risk of mortality by predation and sinking. Key to coexistence is the idea that detachment from particles modulates both net growth and mortality, but in opposite directions, creating a trade-off between them. While slow-detaching populations show the highest growth return (i.e., produce more net offspring), they are more susceptible to suffer higher rates of mortality than fast-detaching populations. Surprisingly, fluctuating environments, manifesting as blooms of particles (favoring growth) and predators (favoring mortality) significantly expand the likelihood that populations with different detachment rates can coexist. Our study shows how the spatial ecology of microbes in the ocean can lead to a predictable diversification of foraging strategies and the coexistence of multiple taxa on a single growth-limiting resource.
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