How the chemotactic characteristics of bacteria can determine their population patterns

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 346-358

  Gharasoo, Mehdi ^a,b   Centler, Florian ^a   Fetzer, Ingo ^a,c   Thullner, Martin ^a,d  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Geostatistics; Microbial community structure; Pore network modeling; Pore scale heterogeneity; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTAXIS; GEO-STATISTICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; PORE-NETWORK MODELING; PORE-SCALE HETEROGENEITIES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; CHEMOTAXIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOSTATISTICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PORE SPACE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 84890845572     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.11.019     Document Type: Article

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