Despite strong seasonal responses, soil microbial consortia are more resilient to long-term changes in rainfall than overlying grassland

ISME Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 738-744

  Cruz Martínez, Karelyn ^a   Suttle, K Blake ^b   Brodie, Eoin L ^c   Power, Mary E ^d   Andersen, Gary L ^c   Banfield, Jillian F ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA microarrays; Climate change; Grasslands; Microbial communities; Rainfall; Soil

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA;

ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 67549086723     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2009.16     Document Type: Article

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