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Stochastic processes dominated community assembly in all three groups: homogenizing dispersal in bacteria, drift in fungi, and in protists a shift from dispersal limitation at AB03 (90%) to drift at AB12 (100%). Bacterial network complexity was lowest at AB03, fungal complexity increased at AB31, and protistan complexity was unchanged. 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