Population and community level approaches for analysing microbial diversity in natural environments

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 236-251

  Øvreås, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diversity; DNA analysis; Microbial communities; Phenotypic approaches; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0034127563     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00148.x     Document Type: Review

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