Keywords
vulnerability
ecological metabolomics
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Abstract
The planet's ecosystems show symptoms that clearly warn us that resilience processes are no longer as efficient; they are in decline as a result of of various human activities that alter their physical, chemical and biological components and their interrelationships. Therefore, this rapid deterioration calls for more appropriate environmental monitoring, increasingly intensifying the need for indicators that are more operational in nature. One of the limitations that arise when monitoring an ecosystem is that there are no tools for detecting and revealing potentially harmful changes in its functional capabilities early on. However, the holistic approach of the so-called omics sciences (genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics), especially metabolomics, could be an important tool for generating data to access the metacognition of the concept of ecological vulnerability and its importance in monitoring an ecosystem. The basis of metabolomics is the monitoring of phenotypic variability in response to environmental changes (biotic and biotic interactions), which permits a better analysis of the different response capabilities provided by the phenotypic plasticity of each species, thus allowing the metabolic patway that is associated with this plasticity, to be determined. The metabolic responses of species are essential to monitoring ecosystems. This approach shows great potential for obtaining not only individual data on organisms but also networks of data on the metabolic behavior of populations or ecosystems in a spatial and temporal manner, which makes it a very interesting tool for monitoring ecosystems.References
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