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Extinction lish because it requires detailed knowledge about the
microbial populations that perform a specific process.
Furthermore, organisms that are functionally redundant under one
set of conditions may not be under different conditions. In
general, we know little about the distribution of functional
traits across microbial taxa despite years of recognition of
this need (Schimel, 2001). Nonetheless, a growing body of
literature has begun to address the more basic question of
whether microbial composition matters to ecosystem