Continental-scale distributions of dust-associated bacteria and fungi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 5756-5761

  Barberán, Albert ^a   Ladau, Joshua ^b   Leff, Jonathan W ^a   Pollard, Katherine S ^b   Menninger, Holly L ^c   Dunn, Robert R ^c,d   Fierer, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aerobiology; Allergens; Microbial dispersal; Microbial ecology; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; AEROSOL; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FUNGUS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SEA; SEASON; SKIN; WIND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

AEROSOL; ALLERGEN; DUST;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CITIES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FUNGI; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; SKIN; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WIND;

EID: 84928914690     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420815112     Document Type: Article

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