About this Research Topic
Environmental microbiomes encompass a vast array of microorganisms that are foundational to maintaining ecosystem health, stability, and resilience. These microbial communities are pivotal in biogeochemical cycles, climate regulation, nutrient transformation, and facilitating interactions within ecosystems. Across varied environments—from soil and water to extreme habitats—their composition, activity, and functions shift in response to both natural and anthropogenic changes. Current research highlights the increasing threat of xenobiotics, such as pesticides and industrial pollutants, which can considerably alter these microbiomes, potentially destabilizing ecosystems. This evolving challenge underscores the urgent need for ongoing investigation into how microbiomes respond and adapt to environmental pressures.
This Research Topic aims to elucidate the complex dynamics between environmental microbiomes and xenobiotic pressures, focusing on the ways these interactions affect ecosystem functionality. Key questions include how microbial communities adapt to pollutants, the resultant effects on essential ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and nitrogen fixation, and the potential for microbial responses to contribute to bioremediation and sustainability. Emphasizing state-of-the-art genomic and metabolomic technologies, this Topic seeks to advance our understanding of microbial adaptability and resilience under xenobiotic stress.
To gather further insights into the resilience mechanisms of microbiomes under environmental pressures, this Research Topic encourages submissions that detail:
- Microbial Interactions with Xenobiotics: Investigation into how microbiomes respond, adapt to, degrade, or resist xenobiotic compounds.
- Microbiome-Driven Ecosystem Functions: Research on the role of microbial communities in sustaining biogeochemical cycles and other ecosystem services amidst xenobiotic stress.
- Bioremediation and Microbial Engineering: Innovative strategies employing microbiomes for the detoxification or transformation of environmental pollutants.
- Symbiotic Interactions: Studies on how symbiotic relationships within microbial communities enhance resilience to environmental challenges.
- Methodological Advances: Novel techniques and technologies for examining microbiome functions and interactions, including the latest in sequencing, 'omics', and imaging technologies.
This comprehensive exploration welcomes contributions from diverse disciplines, aiming to bridge theoretical and experimental understandings of environmental microbiomes' critical roles in our ecosystems' health and durability.
Topic editor Taner Sar is employed by Bioextrax AB, Lund, Sweden. The other Topic Editors report no competing interests related to this Research Topic.
This Research Topic aims to elucidate the complex dynamics between environmental microbiomes and xenobiotic pressures, focusing on the ways these interactions affect ecosystem functionality. Key questions include how microbial communities adapt to pollutants, the resultant effects on essential ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and nitrogen fixation, and the potential for microbial responses to contribute to bioremediation and sustainability. Emphasizing state-of-the-art genomic and metabolomic technologies, this Topic seeks to advance our understanding of microbial adaptability and resilience under xenobiotic stress.
To gather further insights into the resilience mechanisms of microbiomes under environmental pressures, this Research Topic encourages submissions that detail:
- Microbial Interactions with Xenobiotics: Investigation into how microbiomes respond, adapt to, degrade, or resist xenobiotic compounds.
- Microbiome-Driven Ecosystem Functions: Research on the role of microbial communities in sustaining biogeochemical cycles and other ecosystem services amidst xenobiotic stress.
- Bioremediation and Microbial Engineering: Innovative strategies employing microbiomes for the detoxification or transformation of environmental pollutants.
- Symbiotic Interactions: Studies on how symbiotic relationships within microbial communities enhance resilience to environmental challenges.
- Methodological Advances: Novel techniques and technologies for examining microbiome functions and interactions, including the latest in sequencing, 'omics', and imaging technologies.
This comprehensive exploration welcomes contributions from diverse disciplines, aiming to bridge theoretical and experimental understandings of environmental microbiomes' critical roles in our ecosystems' health and durability.
Topic editor Taner Sar is employed by Bioextrax AB, Lund, Sweden. The other Topic Editors report no competing interests related to this Research Topic.
Keywords: environment, Chronic pressure, Microbiome, Interaction, Adaptation, Xenobiotics, Omics
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