Figure 2.

Secondary succession patterns for understanding the consequences of microbial inoculants for the indigenous microbial community

Arrows represent different succession processes on inoculation, where trajectories facilitate (green), tolerate (blue), or inhibit (orange) inoculant establishment. Given that more prolonged inoculant survival has a larger impact on soil community structure, native communities that follow the facilitation models would be most impacted by inoculation, potentially reaching alternative stable states. In contrast, those following the inhibition model would be resistant to the invasion