Schneider Tamar
The Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, Israel.
Hist Philos Life Sci. 2025 Aug 18;47(3):41. doi: 10.1007/s40656-025-00687-1.
The marine phycosphere is a microscale mucosal region of microbiomes surrounding a phytoplankton cell. The phycosphere (analogous to the terrestrial rhizosphere) is where microbial interactions navigate the biochemistry of the sea. The study of this microsphere deals with the causal relation enigma between two spatiotemporal scales: the micro-communal interactions and the macro-level of the biogeochemical cycles (Stocker, Science, 338(6107), 628-633, 2012); Segev et al., eLife, 5, e17473, 2016; Seymour et al., Nature Microbiology 2, Article 17065, 2017). This study of communities and ecosystems looks at metabolic interactions and interdependence relations, not focusing on biodiversity as the object of study. Following marine microbial ecology, an epistemic view of interactions and inter-communal relations seems to take the bulk of consideration. In this paper, I ask what it is about the sea that promotes an interactionist epistemic framework that is different than other fields in microbial ecology. Using Helen Longino's interactionist ontology (2020, 2021), I ask whether the sea presents a unique epistemic framework focusing on understanding interactions and interdependence. I look into the insights marine environmental studies may provide to the methodological and conceptual challenges in understanding microbial ecological stability and life cycles. By paralleling marine and soil microbial ecology, I highlight the distinct features of the water column that offer a unique epistemic and methodological framework focused on interactions and interdependence. Exploring microbial ecology at sea, I detail its epistemic advantages in shaping an interactionist theoretical and conceptual framework.
海洋藻际是围绕浮游植物细胞的微生物群落的微观黏膜区域。藻际（类似于陆地根际）是微生物相互作用引导海洋生物化学过程的地方。对这个微球体的研究涉及两个时空尺度之间的因果关系谜团：微观群落相互作用和生物地球化学循环的宏观层面（斯托克，《科学》，338(6107)，628 - 633，2012年）；塞gev等人，《eLife》，5，e17473，2016年；西摩等人，《自然微生物学》2，文章编号17065，2017年）。这项对群落和生态系统的研究着眼于代谢相互作用和相互依存关系，而非将生物多样性作为研究对象。遵循海洋微生物生态学，相互作用和群落间关系的认知观点似乎占据了大部分考量。在本文中，我探讨海洋的哪些特性促成了一种不同于微生物生态学其他领域的相互作用主义认知框架。运用海伦·朗伊诺的相互作用主义本体论（2020年，2021年），我探究海洋是否呈现出一个专注于理解相互作用和相互依存的独特认知框架。我研究海洋环境研究可能为理解微生物生态稳定性和生命周期的方法学及概念性挑战所提供的见解。通过对比海洋和土壤微生物生态学，我突出了水柱的独特特征，这些特征提供了一个专注于相互作用和相互依存的独特认知和方法学框架。探索海洋中的微生物生态学，我详细阐述了其在塑造相互作用主义理论和概念框架方面的认知优势。
