… , as well as in the human microbiome. We explore the importance of keystone taxa and
keystone guilds for microbiome structure and functioning and discuss the factors that determine …

… pair-wise with a specific functional form. Another drawback, … strength-based or structure-based
keystones, simulate cohorts … hand, keystone taxa may be used as the main drivers when …

… keystone taxa can drive microbial community assembly [16, 17]. These keystone taxa are
highly connected taxa … roles in organizing the structure of the soil microbiome, with downstream …

… (c) Which taxa act as keystone and what are the drivers of such taxa in the root microbiota? …
the causality, in terms of the impact of keystone taxa on microbiome structure and functioning. …

… functions and plays a central role in driving nutrient cycling, organic matter decomposition,
and climate regulation, with direct feedback effects on multiple ecosystem functions (… structure …

… disturbance was a strong driver of compositional change. We used … We then applied this
workflow to data from the Human Microbiome … what traits or functions these keystone taxa share. …

… identification of such keystone species functions is a major … influence on microbiome structure
and functioning irrespective … list of prominent keystone taxa of the human gut microbiome. …

… Keystone taxa are drivers of microbiome structure and functioning, which may play critical
roles in microbiome-level responses to recalcitrant pollution and are a key to bioremediation. …

… Integrating suppressive microbiome may help in engineering … pathways to identify drivers
of soil suppressiveness at a … Our results suggest that specific functions such as pathogen …

… Opinion article (Keystone taxa as drivers of microbiome structure and functioning. Nat. Rev.
… While Röttjers and Faust only consider empirically established keystone taxa, our aim was to …