New model could point way to microbiome ocean forecasting

Science Daily featured UBC research that can help explain how microbial networks drive nutrient and energy cycling in marine ecosystems.

The new mathematical model integrates environmental and molecular sequence information.

“A drop of seawater can contain millions of single-celled microbes that collectively form the basis for nutrient and energy cycles in the ocean,” said Steven Hallam, a UBC microbial ecologist.