Ecological landscapes guide the assembly of optimal microbial communities
Fig 5
Ruggedness of community function landscapes.
All metrics of ruggedness increased with niche overlap. Different panels correspond to different metrics of ruggedness. The plots report the average and the standard error of the mean obtained from ten independently generated species pools. The complexity of the landscape was controlled by varying the average number of resources that each species consumed, Mconsumed, while keeping the total number of resources, Mtotal, fixed at Mtotal = S = 16. See Methods for the complete description of these simulations. The community function here was community diversity; see S3 Fig for other community functions.