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Ecological resilience of soil microbial communities
Jurburg, Stephanie
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Stellingen behorende bij het proefschrift
ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE OF SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES
Stephanie D. Jurburg1
Soil microbial communities recover from disturbances in successional stages similar to those ob-served in macro-ecosystems (this thesis).
2
Successional stages result from biotic interactions and the changing importance of specific traits along a successional gradient (this thesis).
3
The recovery pattern of the soil microbial community is dependent both on disturbance type and disturbance intensity (this thesis).
4
The effect of compounded disturbance on the resilience of soil microbial communities is multiplicative.
5
Soils under intensive management are less resilient to novel disturbances, and are thus more vul-nerable to future environmental change (this thesis).
6
Resilience can be eroded from a soil microbial community, it is not a static parameter (this thesis).
7
The complexity of recovery from disturbance in soil microbial communities is better represented by the concept of ecological—rather than engineering—resilience.
8
“What was formally recognized in physics needs now to be recognized in biology: science serves a dual function. On the one hand it is society’s servant, attacking the applied problems posed by society. On the other hand, it functions as society’s teacher, helping the latter to understand its
world and itself. It is the latter function that is effectively missing today.” – Carl Woese
9
“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.” – Charles Darwin
10
“The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change” – Charles Darwin
Stellingen behorende bij het proefschrift
ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE OF SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES
Stephanie D. Jurburg
1
Soil microbial communities recover from disturbances in successional stages similar to those ob-served in macro-ecosystems (this thesis).
2
Successional stages result from biotic interactions and the changing importance of specific traits along a successional gradient (this thesis).
3
The recovery pattern of the soil microbial community is dependent both on disturbance type and disturbance intensity (this thesis).
4
The effect of compounded disturbance on the resilience of soil microbial communities is multiplicative.
5
Soils under intensive management are less resilient to novel disturbances, and are thus more vul-nerable to future environmental change (this thesis).
6
Resilience can be eroded from a soil microbial community, it is not a static parameter (this thesis).
7
The complexity of recovery from disturbance in soil microbial communities is better represented by the concept of ecological—rather than engineering—resilience.
8
“What was formally recognized in physics needs now to be recognized in biology: science serves a dual function. On the one hand it is society’s servant, attacking the applied problems posed by society. On the other hand, it functions as society’s teacher, helping the latter to understand its
world and itself. It is the latter function that is effectively missing today.” – Carl Woese
9
“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.” – Charles Darwin
10
“The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change” – Charles Darwin
