Microbiome-lnspired Green Infrastructure: a bioscience roadmap for urban ecosystem health

摘要

Microbiome-lnspired Green Infrastructure (MIGI) proposes an integrative system to promote healthy urban ecosystems through multidisciplinary design. Specifically, MIGI is defined as nature-centric infrastructure that is restored, designed, and managed to enhance health-promoting interactions between humans and environmental microbiomes, while sustaining microbially mediated ecosystem functionality and resilience. MIGI also aims to stimulate a research agenda that focuses on the importance of urban environmental microbiomes.In this 'perspective', we provide details of what MIGI entails from a bioscience and biodesign perspective, highlighting the potential dual benefits for human and ecosystem health. We outline what is known about the relationship between urban microbiomes, green infrastructure, and environmental factors that may affect urban ecosystem health - taken here to mean ecosystem functionality and resilience, as well as human health. We discuss how to start operationalising the MIGI concept based on current knowledge and present an overview of emerging and future considerations in research and practice.