Evolution of the indoor biome

NESCent Working Group on the Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.02.001

Evolution of the indoor biome

NESCent Working Group on the Evolutionary Biology of the Built Environment

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Abstract

Few biologists have studied the evolutionary processes at work in indoor environments. Yet indoor environments comprise approximately 0.5% of ice-free land area - an area as large as the subtropical coniferous forest biome. Here we review the emerging subfield of 'indoor biome' studies. After defining the indoor biome and tracing its deep history, we discuss some of its evolutionary dimensions. We restrict our examples to the species found in human houses - a subset of the environments constituting the indoor biome - and offer preliminary hypotheses to advance the study of indoor evolution. Studies of the indoor biome are situated at the intersection of evolutionary ecology, anthropology, architecture, and human ecology and are well suited for citizen science projects, public outreach, and large-scale international collaborations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	223-232
Number of pages	10
Journal	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	30
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.02.001
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Anthrome
Built environment
Microbiome
Phylogeography
Urban ecology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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