Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome

What is the potential for synthetic biology as a way of engineering, on a large scale, complex ecosystems? Can it be used to change endangered ecological communities and rescue them to prevent their collapse? What are the best strategies for such ecological engineering paths to succeed? Is it possib...

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Autores: Conde-Pueyo, Nuria|||0000-0001-5766-309X, Vidiella, Blai|||0000-0002-4819-7047, Sardanyés, Josep|||0000-0001-7225-5158, Berdugo, Miguel|||0000-0003-1053-8907, Maestre, Fernando T.|||0000-0002-7434-4856, de Lorenzo, Victor|||0000-0002-6041-2731, Solé, Ricard|||0000-0001-6974-1008
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:Terraformation
Mars
Evolution
Microbiome
Synthetic biology
Drylands
Hypercycles
Restoration ecology
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome
title Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome
spellingShingle Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome
Conde-Pueyo, Nuria|||0000-0001-5766-309X
Terraformation
Mars
Evolution
Microbiome
Synthetic biology
Drylands
Hypercycles
Restoration ecology
title_short Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome
title_full Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome
title_fullStr Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome
title_full_unstemmed Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome
title_sort Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Conde-Pueyo, Nuria|||0000-0001-5766-309X
Vidiella, Blai|||0000-0002-4819-7047
Sardanyés, Josep|||0000-0001-7225-5158
Berdugo, Miguel|||0000-0003-1053-8907
Maestre, Fernando T.|||0000-0002-7434-4856
de Lorenzo, Victor|||0000-0002-6041-2731
Solé, Ricard|||0000-0001-6974-1008
author Conde-Pueyo, Nuria|||0000-0001-5766-309X
author_facet Conde-Pueyo, Nuria|||0000-0001-5766-309X
Vidiella, Blai|||0000-0002-4819-7047
Sardanyés, Josep|||0000-0001-7225-5158
Berdugo, Miguel|||0000-0003-1053-8907
Maestre, Fernando T.|||0000-0002-7434-4856
de Lorenzo, Victor|||0000-0002-6041-2731
Solé, Ricard|||0000-0001-6974-1008
author_role author
author2 Vidiella, Blai|||0000-0002-4819-7047
Sardanyés, Josep|||0000-0001-7225-5158
Berdugo, Miguel|||0000-0003-1053-8907
Maestre, Fernando T.|||0000-0002-7434-4856
de Lorenzo, Victor|||0000-0002-6041-2731
Solé, Ricard|||0000-0001-6974-1008
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author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Terraformation
Mars
Evolution
Microbiome
Synthetic biology
Drylands
Hypercycles
Restoration ecology
topic Terraformation
Mars
Evolution
Microbiome
Synthetic biology
Drylands
Hypercycles
Restoration ecology
description What is the potential for synthetic biology as a way of engineering, on a large scale, complex ecosystems? Can it be used to change endangered ecological communities and rescue them to prevent their collapse? What are the best strategies for such ecological engineering paths to succeed? Is it possible to create stable, diverse synthetic ecosystems capable of persisting in closed environments? Can synthetic communities be created to thrive on planets different from ours? These and other questions pervade major future developments within synthetic biology. The goal of engineering ecosystems is plagued with all kinds of technological, scientific and ethic problems. In this paper, we consider the requirements for terraformation, i.e., for changing a given environment to make it hospitable to some given class of life forms. Although the standard use of this term involved strategies for planetary terraformation, it has been recently suggested that this approach could be applied to a very different context: ecological communities within our own planet. As discussed here, this includes multiple scales, from the gut microbiome to the entire biosphere.
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Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 FIS2015-67616-P
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 RYC-2017-22243
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 MTM2015-71509-C2-1-R
Agencia Estatal de Investigación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 RTI2018-098322-B-I00
European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 242658
European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 647038
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