Table 1 Comparison of the commonly used methods that quantify immigration impact and the ecogenomics-based mass balance
From: Quantifying the contribution of microbial immigration in engineered water systems
Method | Venn diagram | Source tracking | Neutral model | Ecogenomics-based mass balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Abundance of total immigrants | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Abundance of individual immigrants | X | X | X | ✓ |
Activity of individual immigrants | X | X | X | ✓ |
Multiple upstream environments | ✓ | ✓ | X | ✓ |
Multiple downstream environments | ✓ | X | X | ✓ |
Cell number estimation | X | X | X | ✓ |
Flux measurement | X | X | X | ✓ |
Steady-state assumption | X | X | X | ✓ |
Repeated sampling | X | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |