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From: Ecological succession and the competition-colonization trade-off in microbial communities

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Succession, priority effects, and historical contingency. A Metacommunity dynamics as fractional occupancy of E. coli averaged over all MHPs, \((1-\Theta _s) = \bar{E}_s/(\bar{E}_s+\bar{P}_s)\), for each (\(N=72\)) patchy landscape, s, shown as a statistical ensemble. Color bar represents logarithmic occurrences of configurations for each hour. B Kymographs corresponding to three landscapes \(s_1,s_2,s_3\) represented as three color curves (yellow, dark gray, light gray) overlayed in A. C Colonization of a patchy landscape by E. coli and P. aeruginosa for 30h of a 48h experiment. D Zoom-in into five MHPs of the landscape shown in C, over five times steps \(\tau _j\) (Additional file 1: Fig. S5A for \(\tau _5\)). E Ecological succession. A fast colonizer (magenta) is replaced by a superior competitor (green) following shifted growth phase (see Additional file 1: Table S2) dynamics

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