Specificity of salt marsh diazotrophs for vegetation zones and plant hosts

Salt marshes located on the east coast of temperate North America are highly productive, typically nitrogen-limited, and support diverse assemblages of nitrogen fixing (diazotrophic) bacteria. The distributions of these diazotrophs are strongly influenced by plant host and abiotic environmental par...

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Main Authors: Debra Aline Davis, Charles R Lovell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00084/full