Microbial populations can be dispersal limited. However, microorganisms that successfully disperse into physiologically ideal environments are not guaranteed to establish. This observation contradicts
OTU3%: Clustered sequences from MPTS at 97% sequence identity; OTUARISA: OTU derived from ARISA fingerprinting; SSOabs: OTU3% with only one sequence in the whole dataset (absolute singletons); SSOrel:
