Recently Deglaciated High-Altitude Soils of the Himalaya: Diverse Environments, Heterogenous Bacterial Communities and Long-Range Dust Inputs from the Upper Troposphere

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Stres, Blaz ^a   Sul, Woo Jun ^b,c   Murovec, Bostjan ^a   Tiedje, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEGLACIATION; DUST; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TROPOSPHERE;

ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATMOSPHERE; BASE SEQUENCE; DUST; ENVIRONMENT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEPAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84884608376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076440     Document Type: Article

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