Environmental rather than spatial factors structure bacterioplankton communities in shallow lakes along a >6000km latitudinal gradient in South America

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2336-2351

  Souffreau, Caroline ^a   Van der Gucht, Katleen ^b   van Gremberghe, Ineke ^b   Kosten, Sarian ^c,d   Lacerot, Gissell ^e   Lobão, Lúcia Meirelles ^f   de Moraes Huszar, Vera Lúcia ^g   Roland, Fabio ^f   Jeppesen, Erik ^h,i   Vyverman, Wim ^b   De Meester, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^h AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

ⁱ Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; LAKE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; LAKES; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PLANKTON; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84937074187     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12692     Document Type: Article

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