Namib Desert dune/interdune transects exhibit habitat-specific edaphic bacterial communities

Namib Desert dune/interdune transects exhibit habitat-specific edaphic bacterial communities

The sand dunes and inter-dune zones of the hyper-arid central Namib Desert represent heterogeneous soil habitats. As little is known about their indigenous edaphic bacterial communities, we aimed to evaluate their diversity and factors of assembly and hypothesized that soil physicochemistry gradient...

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Main Authors: Sandra eRonca, Jean-Baptiste eRamond, Brian E Jones, Mary eSeely, Don A Cowan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Environmental gradient
Arid ecosystems
deterministic assembly
open soil
habitat filtration
dune transects
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00845/full

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