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Published on: October 31, 2019
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities
1Univ Lyon, CNRS, INSA Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, École Centrale de Lyon, Ampère, UMR5005, 69134 Ecully cedex, France; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; The Plant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Abstract:
Earth's climate crisis threatens to disrupt ecosystem services and destabilize food security. Microbiome management will be a crucial component of a comprehensive strategy to maintain stable microbinal functions for ecosystems and plants in the face of climate change. Microbiome rescue is the directed, community-level recovery of microbial populations and functions lost after an environmental disturbance. Microbiome rescue aims to propel a resilience trajectory for community functions. Rescue can be achieved via demographic, functional, adaptive, or evolutionary recovery of disturbance-sensitive populations. Various ecological mechanisms support rescue, including dispersal, reactivation from dormancy, functional redundancy, plasticity, and diversification, and these mechanisms can interact. Notably, controlling microbial reactivation from dormancy is a potentially fruitful but underexplored target for rescue.
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