Co-occurrence patterns of plants and soil bacteria in the high-alpine subnival zone track environmental harshness

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  King, Andrew J ^a   Farrer, Emily C ^b   Suding, Katharine N ^b   Schmidt, Steven K ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Co occurrence networks; Community assembly; Facilitation; Mutualism; Niwot ridge; Plant microbe interactions; Soil microbial communities; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875829000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00347     Document Type: Article

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