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Energy, ecology and the distribution of microbial life.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 19 Jul 2013
Macalady Jennifer L, Hamilton Trinity L, Grettenberger Christen L, Jones Daniel S, Tsao Leah E, Burgos William D
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Mechanisms that govern the coexistence of multiple biological species have been studied intensively by ecologists since the turn of the nineteenth century. Microbial ecologists in the meantime have faced many fundamental challenges, such as the lack of an ecologically coherent species definition, lack of adequate methods for evaluating population sizes and community composition in nature, and enormous taxonomic...
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