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SUBMITTER: Bickel S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6702155 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20190820 1
Soil bacterial communities are central to ecosystem functioning and services, yet spatial variations in their composition and diversity across biomes and climatic regions remain largely unknown. We employ multivariate general additive modeling of recent global soil bacterial datasets to elucidate dependencies of bacterial richness on key soil and climatic attributes. Although results support the well-known association between bacterial richness and soil pH, a hierarchy of novel covariates offers ...[more]