Faculty Work by year
Title
Centering Microbes in the Emerging Role of Integrative Biology in Understanding Environmental Change
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2021
Publication Title
Integrative and Comparative Biology
Volume Number
61
Issue Number
6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab047
Abstract
The current environmental changes stressing the Earth’s biological systems urgently require study from an integrated perspective to reveal unexpected, cross-scale interactions, particularly between microbes and macroscale phenomena. Such interactions are the basis of a mechanistic understanding of the important connections between deforestation and emerging infectious disease, feedback between ecosystem disturbance and the gut microbiome, and the cross-scale effects of environmental pollutants. These kinds of questions can be answered with existing techniques and data, but a concerted effort is necessary to better coordinate studies and data sets from different disciplines to fully leverage their potential.
First Page
2145
Last Page
2153
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Laurel J.; Weems, Ebony I.; de la Sancha, Noé U.; and et al, "Centering Microbes in the Emerging Role of Integrative Biology in Understanding Environmental Change" (2021). Faculty Work by year. 4.
https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/faculty_pubs/4
Link Out URL
https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab047