Local and Regional Scale Heterogeneity Drive Bacterial Community Diversity and Composition in a Polar Desert

Local and Regional Scale Heterogeneity Drive Bacterial Community Diversity and Composition in a Polar Desert

The distribution of organisms in an environment is neither uniform nor random but is instead spatially patterned. The factors that control this patterning are complex and the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Soil microbes are critical to ecosystem function but exhibit highly complex dist...

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Main Authors: Kelli L. Feeser, David J. Van Horn, Heather N. Buelow, Daniel R. Colman, Theresa A. McHugh, Jordan G. Okie, Egbert Schwartz, Cristina D. Takacs-Vesbach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
environmental heterogeneity
16S rRNA genes
gradient analysis
spatial scale
polar desert
McMurdo Dry Valleys
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01928/full

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