Integrating ecological and engineering concepts of resilience in microbial communities

Song, Hyun -Seob; Renslow, Ryan S.; Fredrickson, Jim K.; Lindemann, Stephen R.

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01298

Title: Integrating ecological and engineering concepts of resilience in microbial communities

Journal Article · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Frontiers in Microbiology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01298· OSTI ID:1240232

Song, Hyun -Seob ^[1]; Renslow, Ryan S. ^[2]; Fredrickson, Jim K. ^[1]; Lindemann, Stephen R. ^[1]

Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Biological Sciences Division
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab.

We note that many definitions of resilience have been proffered for natural and engineered ecosystems, but a conceptual consensus on resilience in microbial communities is still lacking. Here, we argue that the disconnect largely results from the wide variance in microbial community complexity, which range from simple synthetic consortia to complex natural communities, and divergence between the typical practical outcomes emphasized by ecologists and engineers. Viewing microbial communities as elasto-plastic systems, we argue that this gap between the engineering and ecological definitions of resilience stems from their respective emphases on elastic and plastic deformation, respectively. We propose that the two concepts may be fundamentally united around the resilience of function rather than state in microbial communities and the regularity in the relationship between environmental variation and a community’s functional response. Furthermore, we posit that functional resilience is an intrinsic property of microbial communities, suggesting that state changes in response to environmental variation may be a key mechanism driving resilience in microbial communities.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1240232

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-112189; KP1601010

Journal Information:: Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 6; ISSN 1664-302X

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