Analyses of dryland biological soil crusts highlight lichens as an important regulator of microbial communities

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1735-1755

  Maier, Stefanie ^a   Schmidt, Thomas S B ^b   Zheng, Lingjuan ^c   Peer, Thomas ^c   Wagner, Viktoria ^a,d   Grube, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biological soil crust; Dryland; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Proteobacteria; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; FUNGUS; LICHEN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL CRUST; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; SPAIN; TABERNAS;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; GEMMATIMONADETES; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSORA DECIPIENS; TONINIA SEDIFOLIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 84902387341     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0719-1     Document Type: Article

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