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Soil-borne microbiome: linking diversity to function.
Microbial ecology - 1 Jul 2015
Mendes Lucas W, Tsai Siu M, Navarrete Acácio A, de Hollander Mattias, van Veen Johannes A, Kuramae Eiko E
Abstract excerpt
Soil microorganisms are sensitive to environment disturbances, and such alterations have consequences on microbial diversity and functions. Our hypothesis is that alpha diversity of microbial communities and functional diversity decrease from undisturbed to disturbed soils, with consequences for functional redundancy in the soil ecosystem. To test this hypothesis, we used soil DNA shotgun metagenomics approach to...
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