image: To investigate the response of microbiomes to changing climate, new experimental methods to manipulate microbiomes within hosts or in the field are needed. This shows one way this might be done in natural ecosystems. We use microbial "cages" to transfer microbial communities to new environmental conditions. Here, grassland communities are inoculated into cages and transferred to a pine forest, where it is cooler and wetter. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 6, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Katharine Coyte at University of Oxford in Oxford, UK, and colleagues was titled, "The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability." view more
Credit: [Credit: Alexander Chase]