期刊
ISME JOURNAL
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 1-6出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.118
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- Michigan State University
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (DOE BER Office of Science) [DE-FC02-07ER64494]
- DOE OBP Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy [DE-AC05-76RL01830]
Local diversity (within-sample or alpha diversity) is often implicated as a cause of success or failure of a microbial community. However, the relationships between diversity and emergent properties of a community, such as its stability, productivity or invasibility, are much more nuanced. I argue that diversity without context provides limited insights into the mechanisms underpinning community patterns. I provide examples from traditional and microbial ecology to discuss common complications and assumptions about within-sample diversity that may prevent us from digging deeper into the more specific mechanisms underpinning community outcomes. I suggest that measurement of diversity should serve as a starting point for further inquiry of ecological mechanisms rather than an 'answer' to community outcomes.
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