Opportunities and challenges for microbiomics in ecosystem restoration

Jake M. Robinson; Riley Hodgson; Siegfried L. Krauss; Craig Liddicoat; Ashish A. Malik; Belinda C. Martin; Jakki J. Mohr; David Moreno-Mateos; Miriam Muñoz-Rojas; Shawn D. Peddle; Martin F. Breed

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.009

Opportunities and challenges for microbiomics in ecosystem restoration

Jake M. Robinson^* (Corresponding Author), Riley Hodgson, Siegfried L. Krauss, Craig Liddicoat, Ashish A. Malik, Belinda C. Martin, Jakki J. Mohr, David Moreno-Mateos, Miriam Muñoz-Rojas, Shawn D. Peddle, Martin F. Breed

^*Corresponding author for this work

Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

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Abstract

Microbiomics is the science of characterizing microbial community structure, function, and dynamics. It has great potential to advance our understanding of plant–soil–microbe processes and interaction networks which can be applied to improve ecosystem restoration. However, microbiomics may be perceived as complex and the technology is not accessible to all. The opportunities of microbiomics in restoration ecology are considerable, but so are the practical challenges. Applying microbiomics in restoration must move beyond compositional assessments to incorporate tools to study the complexity of ecosystem recovery. Advances in metaomic tools provide unprecedented possibilities to aid restoration interventions. Moreover, complementary non-omic applications, such as microbial inoculants and biopriming, have the potential to improve restoration objectives by enhancing the establishment and health of vegetation communities.

Original language	English
Journal	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Early online date	28 Aug 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.009
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 28 Aug 2023

Bibliographical note

M.F.B. was funded by the Australian Research Council (grants LP190100051, LP190100484, DP210101932) and the New Zealand Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (grant UOWX2101). B.C.M. was supported by the Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre Collaborative research grant ICoAST. M.M.R. was supported by a Ramon Y Cajal Fellowship, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain (RYC2020-029255-I). D.M.M. was supported by the Spanish State Research Agency through María de Maeztu Excellence Unit accreditation 2018–2022 (MDM-2017-0714).

Keywords

ecosystem restoration
innovation
metagenomics
microbiome
microbiomics
restoration ecology

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