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  • The human body hosts diverse microbial communities essential for health.
  • Analyzing microbial heterogeneity requires advanced data and statistical tools.

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  • To explore community ecology as a framework for human microbiome analysis.
  • To interpret complex human microbiome data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing principles of community ecology.
  • Applying statistical tools to multidimensional microbiome datasets.

Main Results:

  • Community ecology offers a unifying theoretical framework.
  • Facilitates interpretation of human microbiome data.

Conclusions:

  • Community ecology is a valuable approach for understanding the human microbiome.
  • Enhances the potential of microbiome research for human health.