Microbial metacommunities in the lichen-rock habitat

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 434-442

  Bjelland, Torbjørg ^a   Grube, Martin ^b   Hoem, Solveig ^a   Jorgensen, Steffen L ^a   Daae, Frida Lise ^a   Thorseth, Ingunn H ^a   Øvreås, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CRENARCHAEOTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DEINOCOCCUS; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MAURA; MOLLICUTES; OPHIOPARMA VENTOSA; PERTUSARIA CORALLINA; PLANCTOMYCETES; RHIZOCARPON GEOGRAPHICUM;

EID: 80051922454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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