Experimental evidence for strong stabilizing forces at high functional diversity of aquatic microbial communities

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1340-1350

  Carrara, Francesco ^a,b   Giometto, Andrea ^a,c   Seymour, Mathew ^c   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,d   Altermatt, Florian ^c,e   Hillebrand, H ^f  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Biodiversity ecosystem functioning; Community assembly; Community dynamics; Ecological networks; Functional diversity; Interaction experiment; Interaction matrix; Interaction strength; Protist microcosm; Protists; Stability

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COEXISTENCE; EUKARYOTE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RELATEDNESS;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; EUKARYOTE; FOOD CHAIN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EUKARYOTA; FOOD CHAIN; ROTIFERA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84929103597     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1324.1     Document Type: Article

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