Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale
Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale
C. Lauber,M. Hamady,R. Knight,N. Fierer
2009 · DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00335-09
Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 3,610 Citations
TLDR
The results suggest that the structure of soil bacterial communities is predictable, to some degree, across larger spatial scales, and the effect of soil pH on bacterial community composition is evident at even relatively coarse levels of taxonomic resolution.