Bacterial diversity patterns along a gradient of primary productivity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 613-622

  Horner Devine, M Claire ^a   Leibold, Mathew A ^b   Smith, Val H ^c   Bohannan, Brendan J M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial diversity; Biodiversity; Community composition; Eutrophication; Freshwater ecology; Microbial ecology; Primary productivity; Ribosomal DNA; Taxonomic diversity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIA;

EID: 0037742699     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00472.x     Document Type: Article

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