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Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems
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The concept of “emergent simplicity” is widely used in microbial ecology to enable predictions that work because of diversity not despite it. However, thus far, the field has been unable to reach a consensus on whether emergent simplicity is real, surprising, and useful. Moran et al. built a theoretical framework and applied it to data from two separate experiments on microbial communities assembled in the laboratory. The authors found that the complexity of species-function relations changed with community diversity. With more species, community function clustered in a simpler space. The authors describe how metabolic and physiological constraints can lead to this behavior. —Caroline Ash
Keywords:
emergent simplicity
microbial ecology
community diversity
species-function relations
predictability