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Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States

Fierer, Noah, Ladau, Joshua, Clemente, Jose C., Leff, Jonathan W., Owens, Sarah M., Pollard, Katherine S., Knight, Rob, Gilbert, Jack A., McCulley, Rebecca L.·2013·Science

Abstract

Prairie Redux: Tallgrass prairie is extinct across much of its former range in the midwestern United States, but relicts preserved in cemeteries and nature reserves allow functional comparison of former grassland soils with modern agricultural soils. Fierer et al. (p. 621 ; see the Perspective by Scholes and Scholes ) took matched soil samples from sites representing the gamut of climate conditions and modeled the combination of genomic analysis and environmental data to resurrect the historical prairie soil communities, identifying the nutrient-scavenging Verrucomicrobia as keystone bacteria in functioning prairie.

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Authors
Fierer, N., Ladau, J., Clemente, J. C., Leff, J. W., Owens, S. M., Pollard, K. S., Knight, R., Gilbert, J. A., & McCulley, R. L.
Venue
Science
Published
2013-11
Volume
342
Issue
6158
Pages
621-624
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
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Fierer, N., Ladau, J., Clemente, J. C., Leff, J. W., Owens, S. M., Pollard, K. S., Knight, R., Gilbert, J. A., & McCulley, R. L. (2013). Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1243768

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