Contrasting diversity patterns of crenarchaeal, bacterial and fungal soil communities in an alpine landscape

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Zinger, Lucie ^a,b   Lejon, David P H ^a   Baptist, Florence ^a   Bouasria, Abderrahim ^a   Aubert, Serge ^a   Geremia, Roberto A ^a   Choler, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; VEGETATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; FUNGI;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 79955931964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019950     Document Type: Article

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