Soil nematodes show a mid-elevation diversity maximum and elevational zonation on Mt. Norikura, Japan

Abstract Little is known about how nematode ecology differs across elevational gradients. We investigated the soil nematode community along a ~2,200 m elevational range on Mt. Norikura, Japan, by sequencing the 18S rRNA gene. As with many other groups of organisms, nematode diversity showed a high c...

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Main Authors: Ke Dong, Itumeleng Moroenyane, Binu Tripathi, Dorsaf Kerfahi, Koichi Takahashi, Naomichi Yamamoto, Choa An, Hyunjun Cho, Jonathan Adams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03655-3