Microbial Synthetic Communities
Designed groups of microbial species used to study and engineer ecological interactions with controlled membership and function.
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Permafrost Carbon Feedback
The climate interaction in which thaw exposes frozen organic matter to decomposition and releases additional greenhouse gases.
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Ocean Acidification
The long-term shift in seawater carbonate chemistry caused primarily by ocean uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide.
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Coral Reef Resilience
The capacity of reef ecosystems to resist disturbance, recover structure and retain ecological function under environmental change.
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Wildfire Dynamics
The coupled combustion, atmosphere, fuel and terrain processes that govern how landscape fires ignite and spread.
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Microbiome Metagenomics
The culture-independent analysis of collective microbial genomes recovered from an environmental or host-associated sample.
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Ecosystem Biodiversity
Variation within species, among species and across ecosystems, together with the interactions that sustain ecological function.
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Photosynthesis
The biological conversion of light energy into chemical energy, coupled to carbon fixation in plants, algae and some bacteria.
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