Journal | Ecology Letters |
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Date | Accepted/In press - 8 Oct 2018 |
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Date | E-pub ahead of print - 20 Nov 2018 |
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Date | Published (current) - 1 Jan 2019 |
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Issue number | 1 |
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Volume | 22 |
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Number of pages | 10 |
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Pages (from-to) | 149-158 |
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Early online date | 20/11/18 |
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Original language | English |
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While several studies have established a positive correlation between community diversity and invasion resistance, it is less clear how species interactions within resident communities shape this process. Here we experimentally tested how antagonistic and facilitative pairwise interactions within resident model microbial communities predict invasion by the plant-pathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum. We found that facilitative resident community interactions promoted and antagonistic interactions suppressed invasions both in the lab and in the tomato plant rhizosphere.
Crucially, pairwise interactions could reliably explain observed invasions
outcomes also in multispecies communities, and mechanistically, this was
linked to direct inhibition of the invader by antagonistic communities (antibiosis), and to a lesser degree by resource competition between the members of the resident community and the invader. Together our findings suggest that the type and strength of pairwise interactions can reliably predict the outcome of invasions in more complex multispecies communities.
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