We have more sharks, more biomass of snappers, more biomass of herbivores, too,

larger biomass inside the reserves.

Now what we see is huge biomass towards the poles and not much biomass in between.

It could be microbial, viral, parasitic,

And using indigo, make it anti microbial.

This is what we call the biomass pyramid.

But you can imagine the biomass that represents.

Is it possible to really design microbial ecosystems?

And the biomass this is the most spectacular change 4.5 times greater biomass on average, just after five to seven years.

Premature infants have real problems with their microbial community.

And inside these wells, then microbial communities begin to form.

The microbial cloud, it is right in front of us.

And then we have a lower biomass of carnivores, and a lower biomass of top head, or the sharks, the large snappers, the large groupers.

And that means that your microbial hitchhikers are moving with you.

So, for example, when you touch a pencil, microbial exchange happens.

Some people have estimated that the biomass tied up in these microbes

The plant biomass, the phytoplankton, the zooplankton, it's what feeds the fish.

Here we have the extreme with dead corals, microbial soup and jellyfish.

So if you look at the green data points, which is air that's outside, you'll see that there's a large amount of microbial diversity, or variety of microbial types.

Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes.

What we did was we found what were the locally available sources of biomass.

Most of the biomass in the ocean is made out of creatures like this.

So they actually switched to leaving some of the microbial community in the ileum.

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one thousandth of all the biomass.

They reproduce very slowly they have a slow metabolism and, basically, they just maintain their biomass.

Our bodies are comprised of 10 times more microbial cells than our own human eukaryotic cells.

The top head does account for most of the biomass, in some places up to 85 percent,

And if we think about the increase of biomass inside the reserves, this is like compound interest.

Nowadays, in addressing microbial biodiversity, scientists are like explorers in a rowboat launched onto the Pacific Ocean.

First of all, your pyramid, your inverted pyramid, showing 85 percent biomass in the predators, that seems impossible.

But that doesn't help because there were very few species and volume of biomass there in the first place.

land use change, rate of biodiversity loss, freshwater use, functions which regulate biomass on the planet, carbon sequestration, diversity.

Most of the biomass is low on the food chain, the herbivores, the parrotfish, the surgeonfish that eat the algae.

So, basically, the production surplus of these guys down there is enough to maintain this biomass that is not moving.

The ocean provides a friendly environment, and chemicals detected in the plume of water are also favorable to microbial life.

So what can we do to restore our microbial community when we have thousands and thousands of species on us?

It's basically a measure of how many tigers, toads, ticks or whatever on average of biomass of various species are around.

The data points that are closer together have microbial communities that are more similar than data points that are far apart.

What I'm not suggesting is that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials.

If you take a closer look at a root system, you will find there are many, many, many diverse microbial colonies.

Probiotics are one thing that you can try and do to restore the microbial community that is in and on you.

And what we need now is to start thinking about this microbial community in the context of everything in human medicine.

Less than 5,000 microbial species have been characterized as of two years ago, and so we decided to do something about it.

We are right now in the beautiful Oreo of existence of at least life on Planet Earth following the first horrible microbial age.

We find microbial life in every part of the planet in ice, in coal, in rocks, in volcanic vents it's an amazing thing.