TY - JOUR
T1 - Introducing the mangrove microbiome initiative
T2 - Identifying microbial research priorities and approaches to better understand, protect, and rehabilitate mangrove ecosystems
AU - Allard, Sarah M.
AU - Costa, Matthew T.
AU - Bulseco, Ashley N.
AU - Helfer, Véronique
AU - Wilkins, Laetitia G.E.
AU - Hassenrück, Christiane
AU - Zengler, Karsten
AU - Zimmer, Martin
AU - Erazo, Natalia
AU - Mazza Rodrigues, Jorge L.
AU - Duke, Norman
AU - Melo, Vânia M.M.
AU - Vanwonterghem, Inka
AU - Junca, Howard
AU - Makonde, Huxley M.
AU - Jiménez, Diego Javier
AU - Tavares, Tallita C.L.
AU - Fusi, Marco
AU - Daffonchio, Daniele
AU - Duarte, Carlos M.
AU - Peixoto, Raquel S.
AU - Rosado, Alexandre S.
AU - Gilbert, Jack A.
AU - Bowman, Jeff
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 Allard et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
PY - 2020/10/20
Y1 - 2020/10/20
N2 - Mangrove ecosystems provide important ecological benefits and ecosystem services, including carbon storage and coastline stabilization, but they also suffer great anthropogenic pressures. Microorganisms associated with mangrove sediments and the rhizosphere play key roles in this ecosystem and make essential contributions to its productivity and carbon budget. Understanding this nexus and moving from descriptive studies of microbial taxonomy to hypothesis-driven field and lab studies will facilitate a mechanistic understanding of mangrove ecosystem interaction webs and open opportunities for microorganism-mediated approaches to mangrove protection and rehabilitation. Such an effort calls for a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach, involving chemists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, microbiologists, oceanographers, plant scientists, conservation biologists, and stakeholders, and it requires standardized methods to support reproducible experiments. Here, we outline the Mangrove Microbiome Initiative, which is focused around three urgent priorities and three approaches for advancing mangrove microbiome research.
AB - Mangrove ecosystems provide important ecological benefits and ecosystem services, including carbon storage and coastline stabilization, but they also suffer great anthropogenic pressures. Microorganisms associated with mangrove sediments and the rhizosphere play key roles in this ecosystem and make essential contributions to its productivity and carbon budget. Understanding this nexus and moving from descriptive studies of microbial taxonomy to hypothesis-driven field and lab studies will facilitate a mechanistic understanding of mangrove ecosystem interaction webs and open opportunities for microorganism-mediated approaches to mangrove protection and rehabilitation. Such an effort calls for a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach, involving chemists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, microbiologists, oceanographers, plant scientists, conservation biologists, and stakeholders, and it requires standardized methods to support reproducible experiments. Here, we outline the Mangrove Microbiome Initiative, which is focused around three urgent priorities and three approaches for advancing mangrove microbiome research.
KW - Ecosystem rehabilitation
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Mangrove
KW - Microbiome
KW - Rhizosphere
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U2 - 10.1128/mSystems.00658-20
DO - 10.1128/mSystems.00658-20
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85095429827
SN - 2379-5077
VL - 5
JO - mSystems
JF - mSystems
IS - 5
M1 - e0065820
ER -