Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology?

By Jizhong Zhou, D. Ning. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2017

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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): “3], confirming the dominance of deterministic processes (also called niche-based mechanisms (Zhou and Ning, 2017)), even for fungal and protist communities that had a high variance remaining unexplained in the variation partitioning [Fig.”
Deterministic selection dominates microbial community assembly in termite mounds (2020, background): “Deterministic (niche-based theory) and stochastic (neutral theory) processes are commonly used to explain the assembly of species into communities [3, 5].”
Stochastic processes shape microeukaryotic community assembly in a subtropical river across wet and dry seasons (2019, methodology): “These other mechanisms include environmental selection and species interactions [4, 44], which remain difficult to quantify their relative contribution on microeukaryotes.”