Microbial resource utilization traits and trade-offs: Implications for community structure, functioning, and biogeochemical impacts at present and in the future

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Litchman, Elena ^a   Edwards, Kyle F ^b   Klausmeier, Christopher A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Global change; Microbes; Nutrient uptake; Resource competition; Trait evolution; Trait based models; Warming

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CELL SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MODEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDICTION; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84930946097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00254     Document Type: Review

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