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Spatial and resource factors influencing high microbial diversity in soil.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2002
Zhou Jizhong, Xia Beicheng, Treves David S, Wu L-Y, Marsh Terry L, O'Neill Robert V, Palumbo Anthony V, Tiedje James M
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To begin defining the key determinants that drive microbial community structure in soil, we examined 29 soil samples from four geographically distinct locations taken from the surface, vadose zone, and saturated subsurface using a small-subunit rRNA-based cloning approach. While microbial communities in low-carbon, saturated, subsurface soils showed dominance, microbial communities in low-carbon surface soils...
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