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Mau, R.; Liu, C., Aziz, M., Schwartz, E., Dijkstra, P., Marks, J., Price, L., Keim, P., Hungate, B. Linking soil bacterial biodiversity and soil carbon stability. ISME Journal in press

http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ismej2014205a.html

Abstract

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-2229.12126/full

Evans, S. et al. 2014 Is bacterial moisture niche a good predictor of shifts in community composition over long-term drought? Ecology 95: 110-122

http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/13-0500.1

Abstract:

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.2676.htmlPredic... functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth.2604.html
UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1574-6976.12023/abstract

http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ismej201310a.html

https://www.soils.org/publications/sssaj/abstracts/77/2/482

Abstract

http://aem.asm.org/content/79/4/1385.full.pdf+html

One explanation given for the high microbial diversity found in soils is that they contain a large inactive biomass that is able to
persist in soils for long periods of time. This persistent microbial fraction may help to buffer the functionality of the soil community
during times of low nutrients by providing a reservoir of specialized functions that can be reactivated when conditions improve.
A study was designed to test the hypothesis: in soils lacking fresh root or detrital inputs, microbial community composition

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/suppl.1/4516.full.pdf+html

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of
millions of sequences per sample
Caporaso et al. 2011 - PNAS

The ongoing revolution in high-throughput sequencing continues
to democratize the ability of small groups of investigators to map
the microbial component of the biosphere. In particular, the
coevolution of new sequencing platforms and new software tools
allows data acquisition and analysis on an unprecedented scale.
Here we report the next stage in this coevolutionary arms race,

http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/10-0426.1