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Aug 2026
Stochasticity dominated adaptive assembly of benthic microbiota across oasis-to-desert sections of an arid inland river
Findings support a hierarchical assembly model in which salinity filters community composition, but stochastic processes and network densification shape benthic microbiota in arid river sediments.
Yong-Cheng Chen, Ying-Chao Sun, Rong-Zheng Huang et al.
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