Pyrosequencing-based assessment of soil pH as a predictor of soil bacterial community structure at the continental scale

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5111-5120

  Lauber, Christian L ^a   Hamady, Micah ^b   Knight, Rob ^a   Fierer, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; BACTERIAL POPULATION; CONTINENTAL SCALE; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; PHYLOGENETIC STRUCTURES; PYROSEQUENCING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL PH; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL SCALE; TAXONOMIC RESOLUTION;

BACTERIOLOGY; FORESTRY; PH EFFECTS;

SOILS;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PH; PHYLOGENETICS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TAXONOMY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOUTH AMERICA; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NORTH AMERICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES;

EID: 67651247607     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00335-09     Document Type: Article

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