The interconnected rhizosphere: High network complexity dominates rhizosphere assemblages

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 926-936

  Shi, Shengjing ^a,b   Nuccio, Erin E ^a,c   Shi, Zhou J ^b   He, Zhili ^b   Zhou, Jizhong ^b,d,e   Firestone, Mary K ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Keystone species; Microbial ecology; Microbial interactions; Microbial networks; Quorum sensing; Random matrix theory; Rhizosphere

Indexed keywords

AVENA FATUA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

AVENA; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT;

AVENA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84973373604     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12630     Document Type: Letter

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