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Stochastic and Deterministic Processes in the Establishment of Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Ecological Communities: A Review of Modern Concepts
Abstract—The assessment of biological diversity and the processes that govern it is important for ecological research and nature conservation. This...
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Stochastic and deterministic processes sha** the testate amoeba communities across different biotopes of urban parks in Moscow and **amen cities
Global urbanization has resulted in local habitat fragmentation, influencing ecological processes and biodiversity conservation. However, little is...
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A Review of Stochastic and Deterministic Modeling of Stem Cell Dynamics
Purpose of ReviewThis paper briefly describes recent mathematical models that use stochastic and deterministic approaches to understand stem cell...
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Revisiting discrepancies between stochastic agent-based and deterministic models
Predicting which species will present (or absent) across geographical regions, and where, remains one of the important issues in ecology. From a...
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Nitrogen deposition mediates more stochastic processes in structuring plant community than soil microbial community in the Eurasian steppe
Anthropogenic environmental changes may affect community assembly through mediating both deterministic (e.g., competitive exclusion and environmental...
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Deterministic and stochastic factors jointly drive plant community composition and diversity in isolated wetlands
Contemporary plant communities are simultaneously the reflection of current habitat conditions and historic processes. The observed patterns in the...
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Non-native Plant Species Invasion Increases the Importance of Deterministic Processes in Fungal Community Assembly in a Coastal Wetland
Fungal communities are essential to the maintenance of soil multifunctionality. Plant invasion represents a growing challenge for the conservation of...
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Deterministic and stochastic survival models of injured ozonated Giardia cysts
AbstractGiardia cysts exposed to short sublethal ozonation in lake waters continue to die-off well after the ozone complete dissipation. This delayed...
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Deterministic Processes Shape Abundant and Rare Bacterial Communities in Drinking Water
The deep mechanisms sha** bacterial assembly are a crucial challenge in drinking water ecosystem. However, much less is known about seasonal...
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Community Assembly Processes of Deadwood Mycobiome in a Tropical Forest Revealed by Long-Read Third-Generation Sequencing
Despite the importance of wood-inhabiting fungi on nutrient cycling and ecosystem functions, their ecology, especially related to their community...
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Distinct Assembly Processes Structure Planktonic Bacterial Communities Among Near- and Offshore Ecosystems in the Yangtze River Estuary
The estuarine system functions as natural filters due to its ability to facilitate material transformation, planktonic bacteria play a crucial role...
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Forest conversion from pure to mixed Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations enhances soil multifunctionality, stochastic processes, and stability of bacterial networks in subtropical southern China
AimsConversion from pure plantations to mixed plantations can significantly increase forest productivity and provide better ecosystem services, yet...
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Nodulation number tempers the relative importance of stochastic processes in the assembly of soybean root-associated communities
Identifying the ecological forces that structure root-associated microbial communities is an essential step toward more sustainable agriculture....
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Stochastic Processes Dominate in the Water Mass–Based Segregation of Diazotrophs in a High Arctic Fjord (Svalbard)
Nitrogen-fixing or diazotrophic microbes fix atmospheric nitrogen (N 2 ) to ammonia (NH 3 + ) using nitrogenase enzyme and play a crucial role in...
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Intra- and inter-annual changes in root endospheric microbial communities of grapevine are mainly deterministic
Background and aimsConsidering the plant microbiota, temporal changes are expected depending on plant development stages and environmental pressures...
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Rare Bacteria Assembly in Soils Is Mainly Driven by Deterministic Processes
Rare species are crucial components of the highly diverse soil microbial pool and over-proportionally contribute to the soil functions. However, much...
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Ant communities in disturbed subtropical landscapes: is climate more important than stochastic processes?
Functional trait-based approaches have provided advances in the understanding of community assembly rules. Broad generalisations remain, however,...
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Sex, health status and habitat alter the community composition and assembly processes of symbiotic bacteria in captive frogs
BackgroundFrogs are critical economic animals essential to agricultural ecosystem equilibrium. However, Meningitis-like Infectious Disease (MID)...
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Protein aggregates act as a deterministic disruptor during bacterial cell size homeostasis
Mechanisms underlying deviant cell size fluctuations among clonal bacterial siblings are generally considered to be cryptic and stochastic in nature....
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Mowing effects on soil bacterial community assembly processes in a semiarid grassland
Background and AimsSoil bacteria are essential in maintaining multiple grassland ecosystem functions that are significantly altered by mowing....
