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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

Link Out URL

https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab047

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