Bacterial invasion ecology in microbial biofilms captured by time-lapse microscope imaging. A movie on bacterial strife. KU Leuven
Microbial invasion concerns the establishment of an ‘alien’ microbial species in a resident microbial community. Understanding the rules and mechanisms that govern microbial invasion is of high importance as invasion is an ubiquitous process, involving beneficial and detrimental organisms and affecting various industrial and health domains. Clearly, microbial invasion has to be seen from an ecological perspective. Main ecological determinants ...