Bacterial Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Relations are Modified by Environmental Complexity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Langenheder, Silke ^a   Bulling, Mark T ^a   Solan, Martin ^a   Prosser, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77956271894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010834     Document Type: Article

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