This thesis explores the dynamics of microbial communities from ecological, game theoretic and an evolutionary perspective.
Microbial communities from the coastal area were more able to maintain their catabolic potential and thus to withstand these stresses.
Surface microbial communities from Xylophaga spp. colonized wood logs were significantly different from communities of protected wood logs.
Cluster analysis based on similarity coefficient was used to compare the succession discrepancies of these microbial communities from different stations.
We use this approach to analyze the distributions of antibiotic-resistance genes, virulence factors, and phage sequences in microbial communities from an environmental sample.
Importantly, microbial communities from each material (dental calculus or dentin) are less similar to their paired sample than they are to samples of the same material.
The Earth Microbiome Project is a massive global effort to collect samples of microbial communities from thousands of ecosystems around the world.
It was demonstrated that microbial communities from coal and lake sediments can be enriched and adapted to effectively generate methane under initial atmospheric exposure.
In their natural environment, the structure and functioning of microbial communities from river phototrophic biofilms are driven by biotic and abiotic factors.
The response of soil microbial communities from soils with different soil organic matter (SOM) content to organic inputs with different stability is still poorly understood.
Therefore soils with different microbial communities from varied organic matter inputs decompose organic carbon by different processes, even in the case of simple labile compounds.
