Can eco-evolutionary theories explain outcomes of microbiome coalescence

环境微生物群落是最丰富和多样的自然群落之一，负责许多生态和经济上重要的生态系统功能，包括初级生产力和气候调节。该项目旨在确定生物和非生物因素，这些因素调节由自然和人为活动引起的微生物群落合并（两种不同群落的混合）的群落和功能结果。这些成果将提供一个统一的生态框架，以预测不同规模，生态系统类型和干扰的微生物组变化，并将为开发有效的微生物组产品提供关键知识，这是一个快速增长的行业。

Environmental microbial communities are among the most abundant and diverse natural communities, responsible for many ecologically and economically important ecosystem functions, including primary productivity and climate regulation. This project aims to identify the biotic and abiotic factors that regulate community and functional outcomes of microbiome coalescence (the mixing of two different communities) caused by natural and anthropogenic activities. The outcomes will provide a unifying ecological framework to predict variation in microbiomes across different scales, ecosystem types and disturbances, and will generate critical knowledge for the development of effective microbiome products, a rapidly growing industry