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To uncover these mechanisms, we conducted controlled microcosm experiments simulating coalescence between freshwater and brackish water bacterial communities across five mixing ratios and incubated them in either freshwater or brackish water. We tracked 40 mixed communities over six passages using Nanopore full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Laboratory incubation reduced diversity and increased taxonomic overlap, but preserved habitat-associated compositional signatures. Coalescence outcomes were asymmetric and strongly shaped by the incubation water. In both environments, coalesced communities remained compositionally closer to the native than to the introduced community. However, the relative influence of environmental filtering differed between habitats. In freshwater, strong filtering drove communities to closely resemble the freshwater source, even when the freshwater inoculum was small. 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