Pyrosequencing reveals changes in soil bacterial communities after conversion of Yungas forests to agriculture.

The Southern Andean Yungas in Northwest Argentina constitute one of the main biodiversity hotspots in the world. Considerable changes in land use have taken place in this ecoregion, predominantly related to forest conversion to croplands, inducing losses in above-ground biodiversity and with potenti...

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Main Authors: Marcela S Montecchia, Micaela Tosi, Marcelo A Soria, Jimena A Vogrig, Oksana Sydorenko, Olga S Correa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119426