(a) Stacked bar plots of all 11 and 12-member (full) multi-species communities. The text above each subplot denotes the absent organism in the community. Time and relative abundance are represented on the x and y-axis of each subplot, respectively. Colors represent different organisms in the community. (b) Difference in community assembly for single-species dropout communities. Difference in community assembly was computed as $\sum_{i = 1,\ }^{11}{\frac{1}{7}\sum_{j = 1}^{7}{({\widehat{v}}_{ji,FULL} - v_{ji,X})}}^{2}$ where i and j represent species and time points, respectively. X represents a single-species dropout community lacking the organism X. v̂ denotes the renormalized relative abundance of the shared set of species in the full (12-member) and single-species dropout community. Here ${\widehat{v}}_{i} = \ \frac{v_{i}}{\sum_{i\ \in C}^{}v_{i}}$ where C denotes the set of 11 shared organisms in the full and single-species dropout community. Data points represent biological replicates (n = 6, circles) and the mean of biological replicates (blue squares), respectively. (c) Box plot of the Pearson correlation coefficient for three model training sets (left) including T1: monospecies (M); T2: M and pairwise 1 (PW1); and T3: M, PW1 and pairwise 2 (PW2). On each box, the red line represents the median, the edges of the box are the 25th and 75th percentiles, the whiskers extend to the most extreme data points and the outliers are plotted as red crosses. (d) Box plot of the sum of mean squared errors for the model predictions of the time-resolved measurements of multi-species communities trained on T1, T2 or T3 training sets. On each box, the red line represents the median, the edges of the box are the 25th and 75th percentiles, the whiskers extend to the most extreme data points and the outliers are plotted as red crosses. (e) Comparison between model prediction based on T1-T4 and experimental data for each organism in the full community as a function of time. On each subplot, the x and y-axis represent time and relative abundance of each species, respectively. Data points (red) and lines denote experimental data and model predictions based on T1-T4. Species names are displayed in the upper left corner of each subplot. Error bars represent 1 s.d. from the mean of six biological replicates. 