A number of ecological theories have been used to explain observed patterns in microbial community assembly and dynamics (Sloan et al., 2006; Falk et al., 2009; Ofiteru et al., 2010; Wang et al., 2013 ...
Increasing evidence has emerged for non-random spatial distributions of microbes, but knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among ecosystems is lacking. For instance, ...