ArticleEcology letters2026
Stochastic Forces in Microbial Community Assembly: Founding Community Size Governs Divergent Ecological Trajectories.
Article in Ecology letters, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Stochastic Forces in Microbial Community Assembly: Founding Community Size Governs Divergent Ecological Trajectories.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Impact of nursery-to-fattening dietary transitions on gut microbiome composition and growth performance in black soldier fly larvae.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Biological community dynamics arise from both deterministic and stochastic processes. While species' responses to environmental factors define attractors of community structure, stochasticity, particularly during early assembly, can redirect ecological trajectories. However, quantifying such roles of stochasticity in community assembly has remained challenging. We tracked community assembly in two multi-replicated experimental systems, each with four levels of founding community size, analysing > 3000 samples across four time points. Stronger initial stochasticity led to greater divergence of both population- and community-level consequences. Strikingly, conspicuous differentiation into alternative trajectories of community assembly occurred when the absolute number of founding prokaryotic cells was less than the order of 10
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