EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
5/21/2019 | 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | MERGING ECOLOGICAL THEORY WITH ENVIRONMENTAL METABOLOMICS | 150 G
MERGING ECOLOGICAL THEORY WITH ENVIRONMENTAL METABOLOMICS
In recent years there have been significant advances in understanding environmental microbiomes and their interactions with the environment. New tools have emerged that enable quantitative descriptions of underlying mechanisms that couple microbes with the diverse suite of organic molecules that environmental microbes transform and produce. Linking this understanding to systems-scale biogeochemical function is a major challenge. Recent work shows that ecosystem metabolomes explain 80% of the variation in measured biogeochemical rates. We will discuss an opportunity to meld microbial ecology with biogeochemistry by bringing ecological theory to bear on understanding spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem metabolomes. A quantitative approach will be demonstrated that can be readily used in any component of the Earth system to reveal when coupled physical-chemical-biological systems are in a state of transition and when they are in relative stasis. This is critical for understanding and ultimately predicting the influences of environmental perturbation.
- Microbial
- Biogeochemistry
- Stochasticity
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James Stegen
(), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, james.stegen@pnnl.gov;
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Emily Graham
(), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, emily.graham@pnnl.gov;
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Robert Danczak
(), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, robert.danczak@pnnl.gov;
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Malak Tfaily
(), University of Arizona, tfaily@email.arizona.edu;
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