Contrasting elevational diversity patterns between eukaryotic soil microbes and plants

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3190-3202

  Shen, Congcong ^a,c   Liang, Wenju ^b   Shi, Yu ^a,c   Lin, Xiangui ^a   Zhang, Huayong ^a   Wu, Xian ^d   Xie, Gary ^e   Chain, Patrick ^e   Grogan, Paul ^f   Chu, Haiyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Changbai Mountain; China; Elevational diversity gradient; Eukaryotic soil microbes; Fungi; Metazoans; Protists; Pyrosequencing; Soil pH

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; METAZOAN; PH; PROTIST; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TUNDRA;

BAEKDU MOUNTAIN; CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS; CHINA;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; METAZOA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84911874420     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0310.1     Document Type: Article

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