Ecological landscapes guide the assembly of optimal microbial communities
Fig 10
Ruggedness is informative for a variety of search protocols.
(A) shows the search efficacy of three different community optimization protocols. Despite differences in the performance of different protocols, ruggedness remained informative of search success across protocols (panels B, C, D). Community function was pair-productivity. All searches started from the best of q = 13 communities. Dilution rate in the dilution-based protocols was adjusted for the highest performance. Simulated communities were the same as in Fig 9.