Ecological landscapes guide the assembly of optimal microbial communities
Fig 7
Landscape ruggedness inhibits search success.
Search efficacy is anti-correlated with the landscape ruggedness. Panels (A), (B), (C), (D) show examples for different community functions and ruggedness metrics. Each point corresponds to a separate S = 16 species pool studied in Fig 5. The systematic effects of the ruggedness metric and the type of community function is tabulated in (E), which reports the Spearman’s correlation coefficient ρ between search efficacy and ruggedness. The correlations were highly significant (p ≪ 10−4) in all cases. Darkness of table background color indicates magnitude of correlation.