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  1. (April 3, 2017) A peer-reviewed version of this preprint has been published online at Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

William R Shoemaker conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Kenneth J Locey conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Jay T Lennon wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

https://github.com/LennonLab/MicrobialBiodiversityTheory

Funding

This work was supported by a National Science Foundation Dimensions of Biodiversity Grant (#1442246) awarded to JTL and KJL, and the U.S. Army Research Office (W911NF-14-1-0411 to JTL). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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