H Lozupone et al., 2012, Nature
Gut microbial communities vary widely between individuals and over time; alpha diversity (within-sample richness/evenness) must be interpreted with ecological context including diet, age, and disease state.
- Limitation
- Pre–shotgun-metagenomics era; conceptual framework more than clinical thresholds
- Tags
- alpha-diversity, ecology, beta-diversity, stability