Disturbance Regimes Predictably Alter Diversity in an Ecologically Complex Bacterial System

Diversity is often associated with the functional stability of ecological communities from microbes to macroorganisms. Understanding how diversity responds to environmental perturbations and the consequences of this relationship for ecosystem function are thus central challenges in microbial ecology...

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Main Authors: Sean M. Gibbons, Monika Scholz, Alan L. Hutchison, Aaron R. Dinner, Jack A. Gilbert, Maureen L. Coleman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-12-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/6/e01372-16