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CELL HOST & MICROBE
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 421-432Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2017.03.011
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- National Institutes of Health [DP1OD000964, R01DE023113]
- Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Endowment at Stanford University
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Landscape ecology examines the relationships between the spatial arrangement of different landforms and the processes that give rise to spatial and temporal patterns in local community structure. The spatial ecology of the microbial communities that inhabit the human body-in particular, those of the nose, mouth, and throat-deserves greater attention. Important questions include what defines the size of a population (i.e., patch) in a given body site, what defines the boundaries of distinct patches within a single body site, and where and over what spatial scales within a body site are gradients detected. This Review looks at the landscape ecology of the upper respiratory tract and mouth and seeks greater clarity about the physiological factors-whether immunological, chemical, or physical-that govern microbial community composition and function and the ecological traits that underlie health and disease.
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