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High immigration rates critical for establishing emigration-driven diversity in microbial communities

Cell Systems, ISSN: 2405-4712, Vol: 15, Issue: 3, Page: 275-285.e4
2024
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Unraveling the mechanisms governing the diversity of ecological communities is a central goal in ecology. Although microbial dispersal constitutes an important ecological process, the effect of dispersal on microbial diversity is poorly understood. Here, we sought to fill this gap by combining a generalized Lotka-Volterra model with experimental investigations. Our model showed that emigration increases the diversity of the community when the immigration rate crosses a defined threshold, which we identified as I neutral. We also found that at high immigration rates, emigration weakens the relative abundance of fast-growing species and thus enhances the mass effect and increases the diversity. We experimentally confirmed this finding using co-cultures of 20 bacterial strains isolated from the soil. Our model further showed that I neutral decreases with the increase of species pool size, growth rate, and interspecies interaction. Our work deepens the understanding of the effects of dispersal on the diversity of natural communities.

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