The Invisible Impacts of Calamities
Why we need to study the microbiology of disasters. The post The Invisible Impacts of Calamities appeared first on Nautilus.
by Kristen French
Aug 30, 2023
2 minutes
yclones, tsunamis, floods, and tornadoes are devastating for humans, animals, plants, and buildings, leaving destruction and often death in their wake. But what we don’t often consider is how such disasters impact microbial communities and what that can mean for the ecosystems they inhabit. As extreme storms, wildfires, and other natural disasters become more common with climate change, how they will disturb the vast, nearly invisible universe of fungi, bacteria, archaea,
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