Functional redundancy in response to runoff input upholds microbial community in hydrocarbon-contaminated land-sea continuum

The hydrocarbon pollution crisis: Harnessing the earth hydrocarbon‐degrading microbiome

“…The ecology of microbial communities living in hydrocarbon‐contaminated sites has been conceptualized on the basis of experimental and in situ observations. According to the disturbance theory (Allison & Martiny, 2008 ), the resistance, resilience, and functional redundancy of microbial communities in response to hydrocarbon contamination have been illustrated in several studies (Châtillon, Cébron, et al., 2023 ; Chronopoulou et al., 2013 ; Stauffert et al., 2014 ; Zerebecki et al., 2022 ). However, the microbial communities have been shown extremely dynamic and interactive in response to hydrocarbon contamination (Head et al., 2006 ; McGenity et al., 2012 ), requiring to switch beyond the concepts of resistance, resilience, and redundancy in order to better understand the structure or function relationships (Bissett et al., 2013 ).…”