Carbon content and climate variability drive global soil bacterial diversity patterns

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 373-380

  Delgado Baquerizo, Manuel ^a   Maestre, Fernando T ^b   Reich, Peter B ^a,c   Trivedi, Pankaj ^a   Osanai, Yui ^a   Liu, Yu Rong ^a,d   Hamonts, Kelly ^a   Jeffries, Thomas C ^a   Singh, Brajesh K ^a,e  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacterial composition; Biodiversity; Diurnal temperature range; Global biogeography; Soil carbon; Terrestrial ecosystems

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; REGIONAL PATTERN; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ANTARCTICA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84980047854     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1216/suppinfo     Document Type: Article

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