Phylogenetic molecular ecological network of soil microbial communities in response to elevated CO2

• Published in: mBio Vol. 2; no. 4
• Main Authors: Zhou, Jizhong, Deng, Ye, Luo, Feng, He, Zhili, Yang, Yunfeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 01.09.2011; American Society of Microbiology; American Society for Microbiology
• Subjects: Archaea - classification; Archaea - genetics; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Biodiversity; carbon; Carbon - analysis; carbon dioxide; Carbon Dioxide - metabolism; Cluster Analysis; community structure; DNA, Archaeal - chemistry; DNA, Archaeal - genetics; DNA, Bacterial - chemistry; DNA, Bacterial - genetics; DNA, Ribosomal - chemistry; DNA, Ribosomal - genetics; Ecosystem; ecosystems; environmental management; free air carbon dioxide enrichment; genes; Genes, rRNA; grassland soils; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Metagenome; metagenomics; microbial communities; Microbiology; Minnesota; Nitrogen - analysis; nitrogen content; Phylogeny; ribosomal RNA; RNA, Archaeal - genetics; RNA, Bacterial - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; Soil - chemistry; Soil Microbiology; soil microorganisms; streams; topology; Minnesota

Understanding the interactions among different species and their responses to environmental changes, such as elevated atmospheric concentrations of CO(2), is a central goal in ecology but is poorly understood in microbial ecology. Here we describe a novel random matrix theory (RMT)-based conceptual...