The phrase "associated communities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to groups of people or organizations that are connected or linked in some way, often in a social, cultural, or professional context.
Example: "The project aims to strengthen the ties between the associated communities and promote collaborative efforts."
Alternatives: "connected communities" or "related communities".
However, the mechanisms responsible for driving community assembly differed in the root and soil associated communities.
Ecosystem engineers are organisms that strongly modify abiotic conditions and in the process alter associated communities.
Fungal community composition patterns were found to be generally similar in both root and soil associated communities, across the scales included in the sampling design (40 m–500 km).
The comparison between Pinna shells and soft-sediment associated communities showed that the species richness was slightly different between the two different sample types (49 for soft sediment versus 45 for empty Pinna shells); however the total abundance was found more important with empty Pinna shells.
When considered in the context of microbial community structure, our observations suggest that members of the bacterial phyla Proteobacteria, Planctomycetes, and Bacteroidetes were correlated to both virus abundances and virus production rates: these phyla have been shown to be enriched in particle associated communities.
Copepods comprised 10 43% of the meiofauna in tubeworm associated communities, and 17 99% in mussel associated communities [40].
In particular, the enrichment in root samples of the families Pseudomonadaceae, Streptomycetaceae, and Thermomonosporaceae differentiated the Arabidopsis root-associated communities from barley.
The better identification and phylogenetic classification of sequences achieved with the development of the CORE database has provided a substantially improved ability to separate health-associated communities from those associated with periodontitis (manuscript in preparation).
We now know some coral species-specific associations of microbes exist [1], that coral-associated communities are distinct from water column-associated microbes [1] [3], and that the bacterial communities of corals can shift under conditions of stress or disease [4] [7].
Bacteria growing in these relatively dense, surface-associated communities are phenotypically quite distinct from their planktonic counterparts.
This metacommunity forms the regional pool of prokaryote species from which local (within a single host) host-associated communities of microorganisms are assembled.
