Ambient soil cation exchange capacity inversely associates with infectious and parasitic disease risk in regional Australia

Liddicoat, Craig; Bi, Peng; Waycott, Michelle; Glover, J.; Breed, Martin F.; Weinstein, Philip

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.077

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“…. greater resistance to infectious (especially respiratory) diseases (Liddicoat et al, 2018); . reduced sensitivity to allergens (Wall et al, 2015);…”

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“…For this a number of methods already exist. For example, Liddicoat et al (2018) have proposed and pilot-tested the use of ambient soil cation exchange capacity as a proximate indicator of soil microbiome health-and associated levels of infectious and parasitic disease riskacross regions of Australia.…”

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“…onservation biologists, restoration ecologists, epidemiologists, and public health scientists and practitioners are among those concerned that accelerating climate change is already having dramatically negative impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem health and integrity, and human health (Kolivras, Johnson, Comrie, & Yool, 2001;Liddicoat et al, 2018). Because it is well understood that frequent access to diverse, healthy environments can have moderate to exceptional benefits on physical health and psychological well-being, scientists and practitioners from many disciplines have come together on these issues to solve reallife problems (Martinez-Juarez et al, 2015;Wall, Nielsen, & Six, 2015).…”

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Hands-On Ecological Restoration as a Nature-Based Health Intervention: Reciprocal Restoration for People and Ecosystems

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There is growing concern that lack of access to natural habitatsespecially ones with diverse soil microbiota and vegetationexacerbates individual human and community health problems. Accordingly, practitioners concerned with both human and ecological health have proposed a number of nature-based interventions to improve human health. Two of many promising advances are the Microbiome Rewilding Hypothesis (MRH) and the Psycho-Evolutionary Restoration Hypothesis (PERH). While MRH primarily evaluates whether the restoration of soil microbiota can enhance human gut microbiome health and brain function, PERH tests whether reintroduction of native plant species rich in aromatic phytoncides can reduce depression and lower cortisol levels. Such complementary approaches to the reciprocal restoration of biodiverse habitats and human health are engaging people in nature-based initiatives around the world. We offer examples of programs involving youth directly in ecological restoration activities that may also benefit human health. In particular, we explore how restoring both microbiotic soil crusts and aromatic plant guilds in the urban heat islands-especially in hot, dusty desert cities-can reduce the psychological and physical impacts of diseases such as valley fever, asthma, and other diseases exacerbated by climate change. We report on pioneering tests of indicators of soil microbiome diversity, phytoncide/biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) diversity, and youth responses to restoration work that can be monitored concurrently over time. We call for more collaboration among restoration ecologists and ecopsychologists to better determine the ultimate and proximate causes of nature-deficit disorders and the impacts of ecological restoration interventions on physical and mental health.

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“…. greater resistance to infectious (especially respiratory) diseases (Liddicoat et al, 2018); . reduced sensitivity to allergens (Wall et al, 2015);…”

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“…For example, bacteria can play a key role in controlling adaptive immunity against a viral respiratory infection (Ichinohe et al, 2011). Also, reduced rates of infectious and parasitic disease were found in populations surrounded by high cation exchange capacity soils, which generally support high microbial diversity (Liddicoat et al, 2018a).…”

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Relating Urban Biodiversity to Human Health With the ‘Holobiont’ Concept

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A relatively unaccounted ecosystem service from biodiversity is the benefit to human health via symbiotic microbiota from our environment. This benefit occurs because humans evolved alongside microbes and have been constantly exposed to diverse microbiota. Plants and animals, including humans, are organised as a host with symbiotic microbiota, whose collective genome and life history form a single holobiont. As such, there are interdependencies between biodiversity, holobionts, and public health which lead us to argue that human health outcomes could be improved by increasing contact with biodiversity in an urban context. We propose that humans, like all holobionts, likely require a diverse microbial habitat to appropriate resources for living healthy, long lives. We discuss how industrial urbanisation likely disrupts the symbiosis between microbiota and their hosts, leading to negative health outcomes. The industrialised urban habitat is low in macro and microbial biodiversity and discourages contact with beneficial environmental microbiota. These habitat factors, alongside diet, antibiotics, and others, are associated with the epidemic of non-communicable diseases in these societies. We suggest that restoration of urban microbial biodiversity and micro-ecological processes through microbiome rewilding can benefit holobiont health and aid in treating the urban non-communicable disease epidemic. Further, we identify research gaps and some solutions to economic and strategic hurdles in applying microbiome rewilding into daily urban life.

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“…Consequently, very few studies have directly linked non-diet environmental microbiomes to human health (but see Liddicoat et al, 2018). However, there is a large body of evidence that supports the inference that environmental microbiomes could potentially impact on human health (Flandroy et al, 2018;Rook, 2013;von Hertzen et al, 2015).…”

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