AUTHOR=Sudhakar Padhmanand , Van Steen Kristel , Mallick Amirul Islam , Arnauts Kaline TITLE=Editorial: Multi-scale systems: ecological approaches to investigate the role of the microbiota in different niches JOURNAL=Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2025 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-biosciences/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2025.1665390 DOI=10.3389/fmolb.2025.1665390 ISSN=2296-889X