Local and Regional Scale Heterogeneity Drive Bacterial Community Diversity and Composition in a Polar Desert

Geobiological feedbacks and the evolution of thermoacidophiles

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Spatial scale drives patterns in soil bacterial diversity

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Environmental optimality, not heterogeneity, drives regional and local species richness in lichen epiphytes

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Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

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Niche and metabolic principles explain patterns of diversity and distribution: theory and a case study with soil bacterial communities

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Microbial community composition of transiently wetted Antarctic Dry Valley soils

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Soil Microbial Responses to Increased Moisture and Organic Resources along a Salinity Gradient in a Polar Desert

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Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

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Characterization of growing bacterial populations in McMurdo Dry Valley soils through stable isotope probing with18O-water

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Influence of soil properties on archaeal diversity and distribution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

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The richness-heterogeneity relationship differs between heterogeneity measures within and among habitats

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Factors Controlling Soil Microbial Biomass and Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: Role of Geographic Scale

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Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States

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Local and regional influences over soil microbial metacommunities in the Transantarctic Mountains

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Environmental controls over bacterial communities in polar desert soils

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How big are the McMurdo Dry Valleys? Estimating ice-free area using Landsat image data

(2012) Joseph Levy   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Area-heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities

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Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

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Rapid microbial response to the presence of an ancient relic in the Antarctic Dry Valleys

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Removing Noise From Pyrosequenced Amplicons

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

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Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities

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Resolving environmental drivers of microbial community structure in Antarctic soils

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Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

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

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QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

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Distribution and abundance of soil fungi in Antarctica at sites on the Peninsula, Ross Sea Region and McMurdo Dry Valleys

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Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale

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PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

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Global patterns in belowground communities

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

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Hydrologic characteristics of lake- and stream-side riparian wetted margins in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

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Environmental and spatial characterisation of bacterial community composition in soil to inform sampling strategies

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Importance of spatially structured environmental heterogeneity in controlling microbial community composition at small spatial scales in an agricultural field

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Molecular Characterization of the Diversity and Distribution of a Thermal Spring Microbial Community by Using rRNA and Metabolic Genes

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Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

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Microbial community composition in soils of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

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Bacterial Tag–Encoded FLX Amplicon Pyrosequencing (bTEFAP) for Microbiome Studies: Bacterial Diversity in the Ileum of Newly Weaned Salmonella-Infected Pigs

(2008) Scot E. Dowd et al.   Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

A comparison of methods for total community DNA preservation and extraction from various thermal environments

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The biogeochemical heterogeneity of tropical forests

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