Editorial: The Role of Microbial Communities in Tropical Ecosystems

Affiliations

¹ Unidad Académica de Ecología y Biodiversidad Acuática, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico City, Mexico.
² Department of Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon Eugene, OR, USA.
³ Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico City, Mexico.

Editorial

Silvia Pajares et al. Front Microbiol. 2016.

. 2016 Nov 11:7:1805.

doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01805. eCollection 2016.

¹ Unidad Académica de Ecología y Biodiversidad Acuática, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico City, Mexico.
² Department of Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon Eugene, OR, USA.
³ Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico City, Mexico.

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Keywords: environmental factors; land use change; microbial ecology; microbial processes and diversity; tropical ecosystem.

Comment on

The Editorial on the Research Topic The Role of Microbial Communities in Tropical Ecosystems

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