Microbial Community Composition in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Bioreactors Follows a Distance Decay Pattern Primarily Controlled by Environmental Heterogeneity
Taegyu Kim,
Sebastian Behrens,
Timothy M. LaPara
Affiliations
Taegyu Kim
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of biodiversity is a central goal of ecology. The distance decay of community similarity is one of the spatial scaling patterns observed in many forms of life, including plants, animals, and microbial communities.
