Loss of microbial diversity in soils is coincident with reductions in some specialized functions

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2408-2420

  Singh, Brajesh K ^a   Quince, Christopher ^b   Macdonald, Catriona A ^a   Khachane, Amit ^a   Thomas, Nadine ^c   Al Soud, Waleed Abu ^d   Sørensen, Søren J ^d   He, Zhili ^e   White, Duncan ^c   Sinclair, Alex ^f   Crooks, Bill ^f   Zhou, Jizhong ^e   Campbell, Colin D ^c,g  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^f SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; METAGENOMICS; METALS, HEAVY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84905396453     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12353     Document Type: Article

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