ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank members of the UTK Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and
Microbiology departments for participating in the microbial macroecology
seminars that inspired this synthesis. We also appreciate comments from
Daniel Simberloff, Jennifer Schweitzer, and Colin Averill that
substantially improved this work. KSS acknowledges funding from NSF IOS
1930829 and The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. SNK was funded by
NSF DEB 1936195, Texas Ecological Laboratory and The University of
Tennessee, Knoxville.