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q-bio.PE2021★ 2 cited
Cross-feeding shapes both competition and cooperation in microbial ecosystems
Pankaj Mehta, Robert Marsland
Recent work suggests that cross-feeding -- the secretion and consumption of metabolic biproducts by microbes -- is essential for understanding microbial ecology. Yet how cross-feed…
q-bio.PE2021★ 4 cited
Understanding Species Abundance Distributions in Complex Ecosystems of Interacting Species
Jim Wu, Pankaj Mehta, David Schwab
Niche and neutral theory are two prevailing, yet much debated, ideas in ecology proposed to explain the patterns of biodiversity. Whereas niche theory emphasizes selective differen…