The microbial contribution to macroecology

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Barberán, Albert ^a   Casamayor, Emilio O ^b   Fierer, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Macroecology; Microbial ecology; Neutral theory; Speciation; Stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRY; MACROECOLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

EID: 84904903838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00203     Document Type: Review

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