Urban greenness influences airborne bacterial community composition

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 571, Issue , 2016, Pages 680-687

  Mhuireach, Gwynne ^a   Johnson, Bart R ^a   Altrichter, Adam E ^a   Ladau, Joshua ^b   Meadow, James F ^a   Pollard, Katherine S ^b   Green, Jessica L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Design; Landscape architecture; Microbiome; Microorganism; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FORESTRY; MICROORGANISMS; RNA; VEGETATION;

AIRBORNE MICROORGANISMS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; COMPOSITIONAL SIMILARITIES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIOME;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; BIOME; BUFFER ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GREENSPACE; LANDSCAPE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; RNA; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

16S RRNA GENE; ACIDOBACTERIA; ACIDOBACTERIACEAE; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; NONHUMAN; OREGON; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETATION; BACTERIUM; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; RECREATIONAL PARK;

EUGENE; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ACETOBACTERACEAE; ACIDOBACTERIACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; BACTERIA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT; OREGON; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84989942141     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.037     Document Type: Article

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