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SUBMITTER: Fuhrman JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2409396 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fuhrman Jed A JA Steele Joshua A JA Hewson Ian I Schwalbach Michael S MS Brown Mark V MV Green Jessica L JL Brown James H JH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080528 22
For two centuries, biologists have documented a gradient of animal and plant biodiversity from the tropics to the poles but have been unable to agree whether it is controlled primarily by productivity, temperature, or historical factors. Recent reports that find latitudinal diversity gradients to be reduced or absent in some unicellular organisms and attribute this to their high abundance and dispersal capabilities would suggest that bacteria, the smallest and most abundant organisms, should exh ...[more]