Spatial heterogeneity of physicochemical properties explains differences in microbial composition in arid soils from Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico

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Relationship between soil P fractions and microbial biomass in an oligotrophic grassland-desert scrub system

(2014) Yareni Perroni et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

(2013) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Active and total prokaryotic communities in dryland soils

(2013) Roey Angel et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Temperature Drives the Continental-Scale Distribution of Key Microbes in Topsoil Communities

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Spatial variability of soil fungal and bacterial abundance: Consequences for carbon turnover along a transition from a forested to clear-cut site

(2013) Carolyn Churchland et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Environmental controls over bacterial communities in polar desert soils

(2013) Kevin M. Geyer et al.   Ecosphere

Research on chemical characteristics of soil salt crusts with saline groundwater drip-irrigation in the Tarim Desert Highway Shelterbelt

(2013) Jianguo Zhang et al.   SpringerPlus

Abiotic Factors Shape Microbial Diversity in Sonoran Desert Soils

(2012) David R. Andrew et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Communities and the Nitrogen Cycle in the Gypsum Soils of Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, Coahuila: A Mars Analogue

(2012) Nguyen E. López-Lozano et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Nitrogen cycling in desert biological soil crusts across biogeographic regions in the Southwestern United States

(2011) Sarah L. Strauss et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Assessment of the spatial distribution of soil microbial communities in patchy arid and semi-arid landscapes of the Negev Desert using combined PLFA and DGGE analyses

(2011) Eric A. Ben-David et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey: the ecology of Dry Valley edaphic microbial communities

(2011) Charles K Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Stochastic and deterministic processes interact in the assembly of desert microbial communities on a global scale

(2011) Tancredi Caruso et al.   ISME Journal

Relationships between biological soil crusts, bacterial diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning: Insights from a semi-arid Mediterranean environment

(2011) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The Effect of Resource Islands on Abundance and Diversity of Bacteria in Arid Soils

(2011) Ami Bachar et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Drivers of bacterial  -diversity depend on spatial scale

(2011) J. B. H. Martiny et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity of culturable thermo-resistant aquatic bacteria along an environmental gradient in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, México

(2010) René Cerritos et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Entropy, Information, and the Arrow of Time†

(2010) Irwin Oppenheim   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Bacterial Community Structure Along Moisture Gradients in the Parafluvial Sediments of Two Ephemeral Desert Streams

(2010) Lydia H. Zeglin et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: insights from a Mediterranean grassland

(2010) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition

(2009) Michael S. Strickland et al.   ECOLOGY

Landscape Distribution of Microbial Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Linked Biotic Processes, Hydrology, and Geochemistry in a Cold Desert Ecosystem

(2009) Lydia H. Zeglin et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Plant species and soil type cooperatively shape the structure and function of microbial communities in the rhizosphere

(2009) Gabriele Berg et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Biogeography of soil archaea and bacteria along a steep precipitation gradient

(2009) Roey Angel et al.   ISME Journal

Soil aggregates in a tropical deciduous forest: effects on C and N dynamics, and microbial communities as determined by t-RFLPs

(2008) Ana M. Noguez et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Analysis of T-RFLP data using analysis of variance and ordination methods: A comparative study

(2008) S.W. Culman et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Plant-driven selection of microbes

(2008) Anton Hartmann et al.   PLANT AND SOIL