Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 85-95

  Prober, Suzanne M ^a   Leff, Jonathan W ^b   Bates, Scott T ^c   Borer, Elizabeth T ^c   Firn, Jennifer ^d   Harpole, W Stanley ^e,f,g,h   Lind, Eric M ^c   Seabloom, Eric W ^c   Adler, Peter B ⁱ   Bakker, Jonathan D ^j   Cleland, Elsa E ^k   Decrappeo, Nicole M ^l   Delorenze, Elizabeth ^l   Hagenah, Nicole ^m   Hautier, Yann ⁿ   Hofmockel, Kirsten S ^e   Kirkman, Kevin P ^m   Knops, Johannes M H ^o   La Pierre, Kimberly J ^p   Macdougall, Andrew S ^q   Mcculley, Rebecca L ^r   Mitchell, Charles E ^s   Risch, Anita C ^t   Schuetz, Martin ^t   Stevens, Carly J ^u   Williams, Ryan J ^e   Fierer, Noah ^b   more..

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^h MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

ⁱ UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^r UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^t SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^u LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Aboveground belowground interactions; Archaea; Bacteria; Fungi; Grasslands; Microbial biogeography; Soil biodiversity

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GRASSLAND; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; FUNGI; GRASSLAND; LINEAR MODELS; PLANTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84916898428     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12381     Document Type: Article

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