Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience

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Abstract

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 (longterm) and pulse (shortterm) 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 metaomics data -may provide about microbial community stability.© 2012 Shade, Peter, Allison, Baho, Berga, Bürgmann, Huber, Langenheder, Lennon, Martiny, Matulich, Schmidt and Handelsman.

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Shade, A., Peter, H., Allison, S. D., Baho, D. L., Berga, M., Bürgmann, H., … Handelsman, J. (2012). Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience. Frontiers in Microbiology. Frontiers Research Foundation. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00417

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