Bacterial community of cushion plant Thylacospermum ceaspitosum on elevational gradient in the Himalayan cold desert.

Bacterial community of cushion plant Thylacospermum ceaspitosum on elevational gradient in the Himalayan cold desert.

Although bacterial assemblages are important components of soils in arid ecosystems, the knowledge about composition, life-strategies and environmental drivers is still fragmentary, especially in remote high-elevation mountains. We compared the quality and quantity of heterotrophic bacterial assemb...

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Main Authors: Klára eŘeháková, Alica eChronakova, Vaclav eKristufek, Barbora eKuchtova, Katerina eCapkova, Josef eScharfen, Petr eCapek, JIRI eDOLEZAL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Life strategy
Himalayas
Ladakh
mountains
heterotrophic microbial community
subnival soil
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00304/full

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