Table 1. Differences between the performed transplantation experiments.
| Experiment | Organism(s) inoculated | Environment | Temperature (°C) |
Presence of |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacteriaa | Algae | Predatorsb | Metazooplankton | ||||
| Home-and-away | Nine strainsc | Sterile lake/pond water | 15 | − | − | − | − |
| Microcosm experiment | QLW-P1DMWA-1 | <100 μm Lake Mondsee water | 15 | + | + | + | − |
| Transplantation experiment I | Community Pond-1d | Garden pond | 21.6–27.5 | + | + | + | + |
| Transplantation experiment II | Community Pond-1d | Garden pond | 15.6–22.4 | + | + | + | + |
a
Prokaryotes affiliated with other taxa (that is, potential competitor and potential partners for beneficial interspecies interactions).
b
Protistan predators and other microzooplankton.
c
Pure culture strains, separately inoculated; Supplementary Materials Table S1.
d
Includes three Polynucleobacter lineages represented by strains investigated in the home-and-away experiments.