Towards meaningful scales in ecosystem microbiome research

TY - JOUR

T1 - Towards meaningful scales in ecosystem microbiome research

AU - Dini-Andreote, Francisco

AU - Kowalchuk, George A.

AU - Prosser, James I.

AU - Raaijmakers, Jos M.

N1 - 7061, ME; Data archiving: no data

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Summary Studies of microbial communities in natural ecosystems have been generally focused on mapping patterns of species and gene distributions. Although highly instrumental in expanding our understanding of microbial diversity and distribution patterns, such census studies often lack a meaningful and explicit definition of scale. Here, we discuss the importance of scale in environmental microbiology assessments and consider how patterning ecology can be redirected towards advancing concept and theory formation in ecosystem microbiome research. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

AB - Summary Studies of microbial communities in natural ecosystems have been generally focused on mapping patterns of species and gene distributions. Although highly instrumental in expanding our understanding of microbial diversity and distribution patterns, such census studies often lack a meaningful and explicit definition of scale. Here, we discuss the importance of scale in environmental microbiology assessments and consider how patterning ecology can be redirected towards advancing concept and theory formation in ecosystem microbiome research. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

KW - Plan_S-Compliant_NO

KW - international

U2 - 10.1111/1462-2920.15276

DO - 10.1111/1462-2920.15276

M3 - Article

SN - 1462-2912

VL - 23

SP - 1

EP - 4

JO - Environmental Microbiology

JF - Environmental Microbiology

IS - 1

ER -