Unraveling the Independent Effects of Species Richness and Composition on Microbial Biofilm Growth
So-Yeon Jeong, Ji Won Lee, Chi Won Lee, Tae Gwan Kim · 2026
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So-Yeon Jeong's team disentangled species richness from species makeup in germ biofilm growth, building three hundred independent richness gradients of three to twenty species from twenty-four bacterial isolates. Richness often correlates with ecosystem function, but standard manipulations confound how many species are present with which ones.
Richness-biofilm relationships were mostly positive, with hump, U-shaped, null, and negative forms also appearing. Richness alone explained about fifty-four percent of growth variation on average, beating makeup gauges individually, while mid-richness assemblages of ten to fifteen species often outperformed expectations, showing both count and identity matter.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | So-Yeon Jeong, Ji Won Lee, Chi Won Lee, Tae Gwan Kim |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |