Modeling metabolic networks of individual bacterial agents in heterogeneous and dynamic soil habitats (IndiMeSH).

ABSTRACT: Natural soil is characterized as a complex habitat with patchy hydrated islands and spatially variable nutrients that is in a constant state of change due to wetting-drying dynamics. Soil microbial activity is often concentrated in sparsely distributed hotspots that contribute disproportionally to macroscopic biogeochemical nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas emissions. The mechanistic representation of such dynamic hotspots requires new modeling approaches capable of representing the interplay between dynamic local conditions and the versatile microbial metabolic adaptations. We have developed IndiMeSH (Individual-based Metabolic network model for Soil Habitats) as a spatially explicit model for the physical and chemical microenvironments of soil, combined with an individual-based represe

SUBMITTER: Borer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583959 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature