Dormancy dynamics and dispersal contribute to soil microbiome resilience.

ABSTRACT: In disturbance ecology, stability is composed of resistance to change and resilience towards recovery after the disturbance subsides. Two key microbial mechanisms that can support microbiome stability include dormancy and dispersal. Specifically, microbial populations that are sensitive to disturbance can be re-seeded by local dormant pools of viable and reactivated cells, or by immigrants dispersed from regional metacommunities. However, it is difficult to quantify the contributions of these mechanisms to stability without, first, distinguishing the active from inactive membership, and, second, distinguishing the populations recovered by local resuscitation from those recovered by dispersed immigrants. Here, we investigate the contributions of dormancy dynamics (activation and inactivatio

SUBMITTER: Sorensen JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7133531 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature