Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience

Frontiers in Microbiology

卷:3

Helmut eBuergmann¹  Jay T Lennon²  Thomas M Schmidt³  Didier eBaho⁴  Jennifer BH Martiny⁵  Steven D Allison⁵  Kristin L Matulich⁵  Hannes ePeter⁶  Mercé eBerga⁷  Silke eLangenheder⁷  David H Huber⁸  Jo eHandelsman⁹  Ashley eShade⁹ 

[1] Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology;

[2] Indiana University;

[3] Michigan State University;

[4] Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences;

[5] University of California-Irvine;

[6] University of Innsbruck;

[7] Uppsala University;

[8] West Virginia State University;

[9] Yale University;

关键词: Metabolomics;    Metagenomics;    omics;    16S rRNA;    time series;    networks;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmicb.2012.00417

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Microbial communities are at the heart of all ecosystems, and yet microbial community behavior in disturbed environments remains difficult to measure and predict. Understanding the drivers of microbial community stability, including resistance (insensitivity to disturbance) and resilience (the rate of recovery after disturbance) is important for predicting community response to disturbance. Here, we provide an overview of the concepts of stability that are relevant for microbial communities. First, we highlight insights from ecology that are useful for defining and measuring stability. To determine whether general disturbance responses exist for microbial communities, we next examine representative studies from the literature that investigated community responses to press (long-term) and pulse (short-term) disturbances in a variety of habitats. Then we discuss the biological features of individual microorganisms, of microbial populations, and of microbial communities that may govern overall community stability. We conclude with thoughts about the unique insights that systems perspectives - informed by meta-omics data- may provide about microbial community stability.

【 授权许可】

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