Dormancy contributes to the maintenance of microbial diversity

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

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 5881-5886

  Jones, Stuart E ^a   Lennon, Jay T ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem function; Microbial ecology; Modeling; Seed bank

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DORMANCY; ECOSYSTEM; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TAXON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FRESH WATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77950526876     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912765107     Document Type: Article

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