Abstract
Microbial ecology is an emerging and very important science. Modeling microbial ecosystems may reveal new ecosystem principles not possible in large slowly changing ecosystems. Soil microbes influence plant growth. Some microbes enhance and some are detrimental to plant growth and plant community structure. In this chapter, we model two interacting plant communities and their associated microbial communities. We use this model to quantify the nature of the dynamics of this interaction.
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
(Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture)
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Hannon, B., Ruth, M. (2014). Plant–Microbe Interaction. In: Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems. Modeling Dynamic Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05615-9_30
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