Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 11505-11511

  Bryant, Jessica A ^a   Lamanna, Christine ^b   Morlon, Hélène ^a   Kerkhoff, Andrew J ^c   Enquist, Brian J ^b,d,e   Green, Jessica L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Elevation gradient; Macroecology; Microbial ecology; Phylogenetic diversity

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALTITUDE; BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50049085522     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801920105     Document Type: Article

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