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pH Adaptation stabilizes bacterial communities.
Article in npj biodiversity, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Bacterial degradation of a plant toxin and nutrient competition with commensals trade off to constrain pathogen growth.mSystems · 2026Article
- Microplastic biofilm as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and potential pathogens.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Review
- Microbial degradation of textile dye reactive blue 250 (RB 250) by the novel Pseudomonas aeruginosa RGB11: a sustainable approach.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025Article
- Impact of polyacrylic acid as soil amendment on soil microbial activity under different moisture regimes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Probiotic Fermentation of Defatted Cottonseed Meal for Sustainable Foods and Non-Food Applications.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Desertification gradients shapeFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Diverse microbes in nature play an important role in ecosystem functioning and human health. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how microbial communities are maintained. This study proposes that evolutionary changes in the pH niche of bacteria can promote bacterial coexistence. Bacteria modify the pH environment and also react to it. The optimal environmental pH level for a given species or pH niche can adaptively change in response to the changes in environmental pH caused by the bacteria themselves. Theory shows that the evolutionary changes in the pH niche can stabilize otherwise unstable large bacterial communities, particularly when the evolution occurs rapidly and diverse bacteria modifying pH in different directions coexist in balance. The stabilization is sufficiently strong to mitigate the inherent instability of system complexity with many species and interactions. This model can show a relationship between pH and diversity in natural bacterial systems.
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