Lack of functional redundancy in the relationship between microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning

By M. Delgado‐Baquerizo, Luca Giaramida, Peter B. Reich, Amit N. Khachane, K. Hamonts, Christine Edwards, Linda Lawton, Brajesh Kumar Singh. 2016

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Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps (2021, background): “However, emerging evidence suggests that functional redundancy may not actually be as widespread as previously thought (Allison and Martiny, 2008; Delgado-Baquerizo et al., 2016; Galand et al., 2018).”
Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings (2017, background): “Removal of rare microbes in activated sludge and freshwater greatly reduced the capacity to degrade pollutants and toxins (Dell'Anno et al., 2012; Hernandez-Raquet et al., 2013; Delgado-Baquerizo et al., 2016).”