articleProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesFeb 18, 2014BRONZE OA

Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control · +8 more institutions

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Abstract

Unraveling the drivers of community structure and succession in response to environmental change is a central goal in ecology. Although the mechanisms shaping community structure have been intensively examined, those controlling ecological succession remain elusive. To understand the relative importance of stochastic and deterministic processes in mediating microbial community succession, a unique framework composed of four different cases was developed for fluidic and nonfluidic ecosystems. The framework was then tested for one fluidic ecosystem: a groundwater system perturbed by adding emulsified vegetable oil (EVO) for uranium immobilization. Our results revealed that groundwater microbial community…

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