Urban habitat restoration provides a human health benefit through microbiome rewilding: the Microbiome Rewilding Hypothesis

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 866-872

  Mills, Jacob G ^a   Weinstein, Philip ^a   Gellie, Nicholas J C ^a   Weyrich, Laura S ^a   Lowe, Andrew J ^a   Breed, Martin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ecosystem services; eDNA; immune dysregulation; metabarcoding; primary prevention; restoration genomics

Indexed keywords

DNA; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GENOMICS; HABITAT RESTORATION; HEALTH IMPACT; SOIL BIOTA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 85031129801     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12610     Document Type: Article

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