Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Macroecological laws describe variation and diversity in microbial communities

  • Jacopo Grilli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18529-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Microbes interact in different ways than macro-organisms, but their interactions can still form the basis for broader macroecological patterns like the Species Abundance Distribution. Here, the author shows that thre general ecological patterns can be found in microbes, within and across biome types.