Colonisation by alien microbiota: identifying key ecological processes

该项目旨在确定调节新环境微生物定植及其功能后果的关键生态和分子机制。微生物群落是生态系统功能的重要贡献者，推动着关键的生态和经济重要过程，如碳和养分循环。该项目将提供一个统一的框架，用于描述不同规模、栖息地、生态系统类型和环境干扰（如气候变化）的外来物种殖民成功的特征。

This project aims to determine key ecological and molecular mechanisms that regulate microbial colonisation of new environments and their functional consequences. Microbial communities are important yet unseen contributors to the functioning of ecosystems, driving key ecological and economically important processes such as carbon and nutrient cycling. The project will provide a unifying framework for characterising colonisation success of alien species across different scales, habitats, ecosystem types and environmental disturbance such as climate change.