So a better question is: Can microbial communities be driven supracritical?
In both cases, this may happen in isolated or complex environmental microbial communities.
"How can you manipulate the microbial community to more broadly affect energy balance?"
There is an association between the concentration of each microbial community and dietary components.
Suppression of the microbial community oxidizing the waste will lower the test result.
One possible alternative would be working with microbial communities, which makes the process shorter, and cheaper.
It could be carried out directly with mixed microbial communities as well.
So she thought of looking back, at the microbial communities which had survived through almost all the Earth's history-stromatolites.
The mouth harbors a diverse, abundant and complex microbial community.
All the above features arise in a coevolving microbial community.