Quantifying human impact on Earth's microbiome

Stephen B Pointing^{1

2}, Noah Fierer^{3

4}, Gavin J D Smith^{5

6

7}, Peter D Steinberg^{8

9}, Martin Wiedmann¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Applied Ecology New Zealand, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
² Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan.
³ Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
⁵ Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore.
⁶ WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
⁷ Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
⁸ Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Sydney, New South Wales 2088, Australia.
⁹ University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

Stephen B Pointing et al. Nat Microbiol. 2016.

. 2016 Aug 26;1(9):16145.

doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.145.

Stephen B Pointing^{1

2}, Noah Fierer^{3

4}, Gavin J D Smith^{5

6

7}, Peter D Steinberg^{8

9}, Martin Wiedmann¹⁰

¹ Institute for Applied Ecology New Zealand, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
² Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan.
³ Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
⁵ Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore.
⁶ WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
⁷ Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
⁸ Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Sydney, New South Wales 2088, Australia.
⁹ University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

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