Soil microbial ecology: ecosystemic functions and services
Résumé
Soil carries out functions that are crucial for the
environment and life on earth and is therefore an essential non renewable
resource for mankind. Recently, the European Soil Framework Directive proposal
indicated that soil is under increasing environmental pressure mostly due to
the intensification of human activities, which are damaging the capacity of
soil to continue to perform in full its broad variety of crucial functions.
Most of these soil functions are depending on micro-organisms inhabiting the soil.
The diversity of soil micro-organisms is the highest on earth with estimates of
several thousand to several million different genomes per gram of soil. However
fundamental knowledge of the diversity and ecology of microbial communities
carrying out soil functions is still limited. Understanding the impact of
anthropogenic activities on microbial communities and how this relates to soil
functioning is therefore a major challenge in soil microbiology. The revolution
in the techniques available to date offer exciting opportunities for a better
understanding of the relationships between microbial diversity and soil
functions. This talk will focus on the novel insights into the impact of human
activities on microbial communities and potential consequences for ecosystem
processes.
Domaines
Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]
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