A taxa-area relationship for bacteria

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7018, 2004, Pages 750-753

  Horner Devine, M Claire ^a   Lage, Melissa ^b   Hughes, Jennifer B ^b   Bohannan, Brendan J M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COMPOSITION; ECOLOGY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PLANTS (BOTANY);

COMMUNITY SIMILARITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTANCE; POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIP; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIODIVERSITY;

BACTERIUM; BIOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARSH; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LINEAR MODELS; PHYLOGENY; RHODE ISLAND;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 10644246730     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03073     Document Type: Article

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