Conversion of the Amazon rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 988-993

  Rodrigues, Jorge L M ^a   Pellizari, Vivian H ^b   Mueller, Rebecca ^c   Baek, Kyunghwa ^d   Jesus, Ederson Da C ^e   Paula, Fabiana S ^b   Mirza, Babur ^a   Hamaou, George S ^d   Tsai, Siu Mui ^e   Feiglf, Brigitte ^b   Tiedje, James M ^f   Bohannan, Brendan J M ^c   Nus̈slein, Klaus ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community similarity; Deforestation microorganisms; Distance decay; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHLOROFLEXI; ECOSYSTEM; FIRMICUTES; LAND USE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; RAIN FOREST; SOIL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS;

EID: 84872572048     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220608110     Document Type: Article

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