期刊
ISME JOURNAL
卷 11, 期 10, 页码 2159-2166出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.60
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- Academy of Finland [295741, 307127]
- FWO
- IWT
- Rega Institute
- KU Leuven
- VIB
- Horizon programs
- Fondation Universitaire de Belgique
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [295741] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
The study of host-associated microbial community composition has suggested the presence of alternative community types. We discuss three mechanisms that could explain these observations. The most commonly invoked mechanism links community types to a response to environmental change; alternatively, community types were shown to emerge from interactions between members of local communities sampled from a metacommunity. Here, we emphasize multi-stability as a third mechanism, giving rise to different community types in the same environmental conditions. We illustrate with a toy model how multi-stability can generate community types and discuss the consequences of multi-stability for data interpretation.
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