Variation in local carrying capacity and the individual fate of bacterial colonizers in the phyllosphere

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 756-765

  Remus Emsermann, Mitja N P ^a   Tecon, Robin ^a,b   Kowalchuk, George A ^a,c   Leveau, Johan H J ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bioreporter; environmental heterogeneity; individual based ecology; modeling; phyllosphere; single cell microbiology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; HETEROGENEITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYLLOSPHERE; POPULATION SIZE; PROTEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PANTOEA; PLANT LEAF;

ECOSYSTEM; FABACEAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANTOEA; PLANT LEAVES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS;

EID: 84858866774     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.209     Document Type: Article

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