Impact of global climate change on marine bacterial symbioses and disease

摘要

Microbes constitute the largest diversity and biomass ofall marine organisms, yet they are often ignored duringdiscussions about the impacts of environmental change.This is despite the fact that, of all the organisms onthe planet, it is the microbes that will play the largestfundamental role in either mitigating or exacerbating theeffects of global climate change. Microbes will also be thefirst and fastest to shift their metabolic capabilities, hostrange, function and community dynamics as a result ofclimate change. Therefore, an understanding of microbialcommunity composition and function in individual nichehabitats is vital.