Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Landscape topography structures the soil microbiome in arctic polygonal tundra

  • Neslihan Taş,
  • Emmanuel Prestat,
  • Shi Wang,
  • Yuxin Wu,
  • Craig Ulrich,
  • Timothy Kneafsey,
  • Susannah G. Tringe,
  • Margaret S. Torn,
  • Susan S. Hubbard,
  • Janet K. Jansson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03089-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The role of ecosystem structure in microbial activity related to greenhouse gas production is poorly understood. Here, Taş and colleagues show that microbial communities and ecosystem function vary across fine-scale topography in a polygonal tundra.