The strength of interspecies interaction in a microbial community determines its susceptibility to invasion
Fig 5
An increase in resource competition within a community results in a decrease in invasion resistance.
A schematic representation of the interplay between resource competition and invasion resistance in microbial communities. As the strength of resource competition increases within the community, the resistance to a toxin-producing invader reduces. Furthermore, these invasion dynamics are not predictable based on two-way competition outcomes between the community members and the invader.