Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands

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

Volumn 112, Issue 51, 2015, Pages 15684-15689

  Maestre, Fernando T ^a   Delgado Baquerizo, Manuel ^b   Jeffries, Thomas C ^b   Eldridge, David J ^c   Ochoa, Victoria ^a   Gozalo, Beatriz ^a   Quero, José Luis ^d   García Gómez, Miguel ^e   Gallardo, Antonio ^f   Ulrich, Werner ^g   Bowker, Matthew A ^h   Arredondo, Tulio ⁱ   Barraza Zepeda, Claudia ^j   Bran, Donaldo ^k   Florentino, Adriana ^l   Gaitán, Juan ^m   Gutiérrez, Julio R ^j,n,o   Huber Sannwald, Elisabeth ⁱ   Jankju, Mohammad ^p   Mau, Rebecca L ^h   Miriti, Maria ^q   Naseri, Kamal ^p   Ospina, Abelardo ^l   Stavi, Ilan ^r   Wang, Deli ^s   Woods, Natasha N ^q   Yuan, Xia ^s   Zaady, Eli ^t   Singh, Brajesh K ^b,u   more..

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^g NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^h NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^j DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^k Estación Experimental San Carlos de Bariloche   (Argentina)

^l UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^m INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

ⁿ CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^p FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^q OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r Tamar Regional Council   (Israel)

^s NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^t VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^u UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Arid; Bacteria; Climate change; Fungi; Semiarid

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; ORGANIC CARBON;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARIDITY; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; CHLOROFLEXI; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PLANCTOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL MICROFLORA; VERRUCOMICROBIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84952684109     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516684112     Document Type: Article

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