Microbial communities are enigmatically diverse. We propose a novel view of processes likely affecting microbial assemblages, which could be viewed as the Great American Interchange en miniature: the wholesale exchange among microbial communities resulting from moving pieces of the environment containing entire assemblages. Incidental evidence for such 'community coalescence' is accumulating, but such processes are rarely studied, likely because of the absence of suitable terminology or a conceptual framework. We provide the nucleus for such a conceptual foundation for the study of community coalescence, examining factors shaping these events, links to bodies of ecological theory, and we suggest modeling approaches for understanding coalescent communities. We argue for the systematic study of community coalescence because of important functional and applied consequences.

Matthias C Rillig

Janis Antonovics

Tancredi Caruso

Anika Lehmann

Jeff R Powell

Stavros D Veresoglou

Erik Verbruggen

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Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Trends Ecol Evol

Interchange of entire communities: microbial community coalescence.

A novel view of processes likely affecting microbial assemblages is proposed, which could be viewed as the Great American Interchange en miniature: the wholesale exchange among microbial communities resulting from moving pieces of the environment containing entire assemblage.

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Interchange of entire communities: microbial community coalescence.

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