Before revision: The rise in the availability of bacterial genomes defines a need for synthesis: abstracting from individual taxa, to see the larger patterns of bacterial lifestyles across microbial systems. In community ecology , a URLanising theory is the niche concept.
After revision: The rise in the availability of bacterial genomes defines a need for synthesis: abstracting from individual taxa, to see the larger patterns of bacterial lifestyles across systems. A key concept for such synthesis in ecology is the niche concept.