Nutrient and Rainfall Additions Shift Phylogenetically Estimated Traits of Soil Microbial Communities.

ABSTRACT: Microbial traits related to ecological responses and functions could provide a common currency facilitating synthesis and prediction; however, such traits are difficult to measure directly for all taxa in environmental samples. Past efforts to estimate trait values based on phylogenetic relationships have not always distinguished between traits with high and low phylogenetic conservatism, limiting reliability, especially in poorly known environments, such as soil. Using updated reference trees and phylogenetic relationships, we estimated two phylogenetically conserved traits hypothesized to be ecologically important from DNA sequences of the 16S rRNA gene from soil bacterial and archaeal communities. We sampled these communities from an environmental change experiment in California grassla

SUBMITTER: Gravuer K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5504382 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature