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Warming and increased precipitation frequency on the Colorado Plateau: implications for biological soil crusts and soil processes

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Phylogeography of the Microcoleus vaginatus (Cyanobacteria) from Three Continents – A Spatial and Temporal Characterization

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PrimerProspector: de novo design and taxonomic analysis of barcoded polymerase chain reaction primers

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UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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(2011) Thomas M. Gihring et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Bacterial Community Structure Along Different Management Types in German Forest and Grassland Soils

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Evidence of High Microbial Abundance and Spatial Dependency in Three Arctic Soil Ecosystems

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Horizon-Specific Bacterial Community Composition of German Grassland Soils, as Revealed by Pyrosequencing-Based Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes

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Identifying biologically relevant differences between metagenomic communities

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Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

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Bacterial diversity, pigments and nitrogen fixation of biological desert crusts from the Sultanate of Oman

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Caldilinea tarbellica sp. nov., a filamentous, thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium isolated from a deep hot aquifer in the Aquitaine Basin

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(2010) Emily B Hollister et al.   ISME Journal

Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: Diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover

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Soil Microbial Community Responses to Multiple Experimental Climate Change Drivers

(2009) H. F. Castro et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

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Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

(2009) Victor Kunin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Community Assembly of Biological Soil Crusts of Different Successional Stages in a Temperate Sand Ecosystem, as Assessed by Direct Determination and Enrichment Techniques

(2009) Tanja Margrit Langhans et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Archaeal populations in biological soil crusts from arid lands in North America

(2009) Tanya Soule et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2009) Rima B. Franklin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Carbohydrates in cyanobacterial soil crusts as a source of carbon in the southwest Kalahari, Botswana

(2009) Denise M. Mager   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Statistical Methods for Detecting Differentially Abundant Features in Clinical Metagenomic Samples

(2009) James Robert White et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A statistical toolbox for metagenomics: assessing functional diversity in microbial communities

(2008) Patrick D Schloss et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

A culture-independent study of free-living fungi in biological soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau: their diversity and relative contribution to microbial biomass

(2008) Scott T. Bates et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A simple classification of soil types as habitats of biological soil crusts on the Colorado Plateau, USA

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