Spatial and Temporal Biogeography of Soil Microbial Communities in Arid and Semiarid Regions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Pasternak, Zohar ^a   Al Ashhab, Ashraf ^b   Gatica, Joao ^a   Gafny, Ron ^c   Avraham, Shlomit ^c   Minz, Dror ^d   Gillor, Osnat ^b   Jurkevitch, Edouard ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Israel Police   (Israel)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL ORGANISM; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

DESERT CLIMATE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880792259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069705     Document Type: Article

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