Evaluating community-environment relationships along fine to broad taxonomic resolutions reveals evolutionary forces underlying community assembly

ISME Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2867-2878

  Lu, Hsiao Pei ^a   Yeh, Yi Chun ^a   Sastri, Akash R ^b   Shiah, Fuh Kwo ^a,c,d   Gong, Gwo Ching ^d   Hsieh, Chih Hao ^a,c,e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HABITAT SELECTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PROKARYOTE; TAXONOMY;

PROKARYOTA;

SEA WATER; SOIL;

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84968665585     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.78     Document Type: Article

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