Functional and Compositional Stability of Bacterial Metacommunities in Response to Salinity Changes

Disturbances and environmental change are important factors determining the diversity, composition, and functioning of communities. However, knowledge about how natural bacterial communities are affected by such perturbations is still sparse. We performed a whole ecosystem manipulation experiment wi...

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Main Authors: Mercè Berga, Yinghua Zha, Anna J. Székely, Silke Langenheder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00948/full