Driving factors of epiphytic bacterial communities: A review

Bacteria establish complex, compositionally consistent communities on healthy leaves. Ecological processes such as dispersal, diversification, ecological drift, and selection as well as leaf surface physicochemistry and topology impact community assembly. Since the leaf surface is an oligotrophic en...

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Main Authors: Rudolf O. Schlechter, Moritz Miebach, Mitja N.P. Remus-Emsermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090123219300694