Once the immediate threat of cell lysis has been overcome, bacterial strains that can catabolize the volatile organic or associated carbon sources would have a selective advantage over noncatabolizing components of the assemblage (Hayes et al. 1999).
Serpentine is ubiquitously a major component of the alteration assemblage as a consequence of the high abundance of olivine in kimberlite.
Vascular epiphytes represent ∼9%% of all vascular plant species (Zotz 2013 b ) and are a very important component of the plant assemblages of tropical wet forests (Gentry and Dodson 1987).
Banksia ilicifolia is a component of the critically endangered Assemblage of Tumulus Springs (organic mound springs) of the Swan Coastal Plain community north of Perth, which is characterised by a permanently moist peaty soil.
Third, a large-scale, controlled manipulative experiment, where shrimp were harvested from 10,000 m2 plots at intensities commensurate with those from recreational and commercial operators, was done to determine the impacts on different components of the infaunal assemblage.
As the main representative of the components of the pollen assemblage, the A/C ratio can be regarded as a humidity proxy in arid and semi-arid areas (e.g. El-Moslinmany, 1990; Gasse et al., 1991; Van Campo and Gasse, 1993; Li et al., 2005).
The intricate metabolic cascades that have evolved between different components of the microbial assemblage that make up complex microbial mats depend on structural integrity to maintain the physicochemical gradients that drive the system [5], [6], [8].
SVOC exposure may affect metabolism among some components of the bacterial assemblage in submerged sediments (Godoy et al. 1998; Castle et al. 2006; Gomes et al. 2007).
The patterns are stronger for the volcanic components of the artifact assemblages than for the quartzite components, reflecting the additional influence of distance from the local source on quartzite assemblage characteristics reported previously.
