When, where and how does microbial community composition matter?

Diana R Nemergut; Ashley Shade; Cyrille Violle

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00497

When, where and how does microbial community composition matter?

Front Microbiol. 2014 Sep 26:5:497. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00497. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Diana R Nemergut¹, Ashley Shade², Cyrille Violle³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA ; Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA ; Department of Biology, Duke University Durham, NC, USA.
² Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, USA.
³ CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE Montpellier, France.

No abstract available

Keywords: biodiversity-ecosystem function; ecological trade-offs; microbial community assembly; species-species interactions; structure-function; trait distributions; trait-based approaches.