Environmental controls over bacterial communities in polar desert soils

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: Geyer, Kevin M., Altrichter, Adam E., Van Horn, David J., Takacs-Vesbach, Cristina D., Gooseff, Michael N., Barrett, John E.
• Other Authors: Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ecological Society of America 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic Dry Valleys; biogeography; environmental gradients; microbial; ecology; productivity/diversity theory; mcmurdo dry valleys; southern victoria land; ribosomal-rna genes; microbial diversity; species richness; antarctic soils; nematode; communities; biotic interactions; plant-communities; taylor valley; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Antarctic; Victoria Land; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica; polar desert
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24806; http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES13-00048.1; https://doi.org/10.1890/es13-00048.1

Productivity-diversity theory has proven informative to many investigations seeking to understand drivers of spatial patterns in biotic communities and relationships between resource availability and community structure documented for a wide variety of taxa. For soil bacteria, availability of organi...