Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems
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Summary
Both patterns are unlikely to be the result of ecological drift, but are inevitable emergent properties of open microbial systems resulting mainly from biotic interactions and environmental and spatial processes.
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- review
- Published
- 2018-04-16
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- 1,808
- References
- 107
- Access
- Open access
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Keywords
Redundancy (engineering), Biology, Ecological niche, Ecology, Niche
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