New Insights into Diversity Patterns and Ecology of Bacterial Communities in Extreme Ecosystems
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Diversity and Culture Collections".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3188
Special Issue Editors
Interests: airborne microbiomes; algae-associated microbiomes; bacterial community diversity; extremophilic bacteria; plant-associated microbiomes; plant growth-promoting bacteria; sediment-associated microbiomes; soil microbiology
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Dear Colleagues,
It has been estimated that more than 80% of the Earth’s surface is covered by extreme ecosystems, such as hot and cold deserts, oceanic deeps, salt lakes, volcanoes, and upper atmosphere. In addition, we currently carry out most of our daily activities in built environments, some of which have also been categorized as extreme environments because of their continuous exposure to antimicrobial agents (e.g., operating rooms in hospitals and clear rooms in food and pharmaceutical manufacturing). In these extreme ecosystems, bacteria have colonized, survived, and proliferated with other extremophile microorganisms (fungi and archaea) or higher organisms (animals, plants, and insects). Therefore, bacteria have evolved and developed a wide variety of strategies and mechanisms to live under harsh conditions in extreme ecosystems and built environments, such as exceptionally high or low values of temperature, pressure, oxygen, carbon dioxide, acidity, radiation, nutrients, water, salt, sugars, etc. In this context, culture-independent approaches and next-generation omics technologies are currently applied in the study of environmental bacteria. Thus, a new window has been opened in microbial ecology, revealing the huge diversity of bacteria in extreme ecosystems as never seen before. However, the ecological role, functions and interactions of bacterial communities with other extremophiles are still unknown in most extreme ecosystems and built environments.
In this Special Issue we invite microbiologists, biologists, biochemists and biotechnologists to contribute new insights into the diversity and ecology of bacterial communities present in extreme ecosystems.
Contributions can be focused on (but are not limited to):
- Diversity of bacterial community in extreme ecosystems and built environments;
- Interactions of bacterial communities with plants and animals living in extreme ecosystems;
- Response to climate change of bacterial communities in extreme ecosystems;
- Methods to study bacterial communities in extreme ecosystems and built environments;
- Bioprospecting and biotechnological application of novel bacteria isolated from extreme ecosystems and built environments.
We welcome the submission of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to investigate bacteria-mediated processes in extreme ecosystems and built environments, as well as studies on bioprospecting of the discovery and application of novel bioactive products in medicine, industry, agriculture, environmental protection, etc.
Dr. Milko A. Jorquera
Dr. Qian Zhang
Guest Editors
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