Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Soil bacterial diversity mediated by microscale aqueous-phase processes across biomes

  • Samuel Bickel,
  • Dani Or

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13966-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Numerous micro- and macro-scale factors influence soil microbial diversity. Here the authors create a model to demonstrate that fine scale soil moisture influences the carrying capacity of microbes, which then scales up to larger biogeographic patterns.