Environmental controls on the landscape-scale biogeography of stream bacterial communities

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2162-2173

  Fierer, Noah ^a   Morse, Jennifer L ^b   Berthrong, Sean T ^b   Bernhardt, Emily S ^b   Jackson, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA genes; Bacteria; Hubbard Brook, New Hampshire, USA; Microbial biogeography; Microbial diversity; pH; Stream benthic organic matter; T RFLP; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HETEROGENEITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC MATTER; PH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAM; WATERSHED;

HUBBARD BROOK; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBON; NITROGEN; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PH; RIVER; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NITROGEN; RIVERS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 38449112550     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1746.1     Document Type: Article

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