Tag-encoded pyrosequencing analysis of bacterial diversity within different alpine grassland ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 779-786

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Wu, Xiukun ^a   Liu, Guangxiu ^a   Dong, Zhibao ^a   Zhang, Gaosen ^a   Chen, Tuo ^a   Dyson, Paul J ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Alpine grassland; Bacteria; Pyrosequencing; Qinghai Tibet Plateau

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; METHANE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; RNA;

16S RRNA; ALPINE GRASSLANDS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; METHANE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NITROGEN FIXING BACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DNA; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); GEMMATIMONADETES; PROTEOBACTERIA; UNCLASSIFIED BACTERIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 84904399237     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-3001-z     Document Type: Article

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