Geographic variation in the diversity of microbial communities: Research directions and prospects for experimental biogeography

Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms is Everything Small Everywhere?

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 335-357

  Hortal, Joaquín ^a,b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511974878.018     Document Type: Chapter

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