Linking microbial community structure and microbial processes: an empirical and conceptual overview
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Linking microbial community structure and microbial processes: an empirical and conceptual overview.
A major goal of microbial ecology is to identify links between microbial community structure and microbial processes. Although this objective seems straightforward, there are conceptual and methodological challenges to designing studies that explicitly evaluate this link. Here, we analyzed literature documenting structure and process responses to manipulations to determine the frequency of stru...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1574-6941
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiv113