Deterministic influences exceed dispersal effects on hydrologically-connected microbiomes
E. B. Graham, A. R. Crump, C. T. Resch, S. Fansler, E. Arntzen, D. W. Kennedy, J. K. Fredrickson, J. C. Stegen
The paper investigates microbiome assembly in hydrologically-connected zones, finding deterministic ecological selection over dispersal and identifying organism groups linked to seasonal metabolic shifts in hyporheic zones.
bioRxiv · Jan 12, 2017Ecology