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. 2018 Apr;26(4):250-252.
doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2018.02.010. Epub 2018 Mar 6.

Towards a Natural History of Soil Bacterial Communities

Jennifer B H Martiny  1 , Kendra E Walters  2
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Towards a Natural History of Soil Bacterial Communities

Jennifer B H Martiny et al. Trends Microbiol. 2018 Apr.

Abstract

Despite the enormous diversity of bacteria, a recent study reveals that soils are globally dominated by a small list of taxa. Characterizing the traits of these bacteria offers the potential for predicting functional differences among soil communities.

Keywords: bacterial richness; dominant taxa; species-abundance distribution.

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