Priorities for ocean microbiome research

Studying the ocean microbiome can inform international policies related to ocean governance, tackling climate change, ocean acidification and pollution, and can help promote achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals. Microbial communities have essential roles in ocean ecology and planeta...

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Published in:Nature Microbiology
Main Authors: Abreu, Andre, Bourgois, Etienne, Gristwood, Adam, Troublé, Romain, Acinas, Silvia G., Bork, Peer, Boss, Emmanuel, Bowler, Chris, Budinich, Marko, Chaffron, Samuel, de Vargas, Colomban, Delmont, Tom O., Eveillard, Damien, Guidi, Lionel, Iudicone, Daniele, Kandels, Stephanie, Morlon, Hélène, Lombard, Fabien, Pepperkok, Rainer, Karlusich, Juan José Pierella, Piganeau, Gwenael, Régimbeau, Antoine, Sommeria-Klein, Guilhem, Stemmann, Lars, Sullivan, Matthew B., Sunagawa, Shinichi, Wincker, Patrick, Zablocki, Olivier, Arendt, Detlev, Bilic, Josipa, Finn, Robert, Heard, Edith, Rouse, Brendan, Vamathevan, Jessica, Casotti, Raffaella, Cancio, Ibon, Cunliffe, Michael, Kervella, Anne Emmanuelle, Kooistra, Wiebe H. C. F., Obst, Matthias, Pade, Nicolas, Power, Deborah, Santi, Ioulia, Tsagaraki, Tatiana Margo, Vanaverbeke, Jan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
Subjects:
Marine
Genome
Plankton
Terrestrial
Bacteria
Sequence
Ecology
Viruses
Biomass
Phages
Ocean acidification
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/18622
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01145-5
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Summary:Studying the ocean microbiome can inform international policies related to ocean governance, tackling climate change, ocean acidification and pollution, and can help promote achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals. Microbial communities have essential roles in ocean ecology and planetary health. Microbes participate in nutrient cycles, remove huge quantities of carbon dioxide from the air and support ocean food webs. The taxonomic and functional diversity of the global ocean microbiome has been revealed by technological advances in sampling, DNA sequencing and bioinformatics. A better understanding of the ocean microbiome could underpin strategies to address environmental and societal challenges, including achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals way beyond SDG 14 'life below water'. We propose a set of priorities for understanding and protecting the ocean microbiome, which include delineating interactions between microbiota, sustainably applying resources from oceanic microorganisms and creating policy- and funder-friendly ocean education resources, and discuss how to achieve these ambitious goals. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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