Spatial and Temporal Biogeography of Soil Microbial Communities in Arid and Semiarid Regions

• Zohar Pasternak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zohar Pasternak, Ashraf Al-Ashhab, Joao Gatica

  * E-mail: zpast@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Diseases, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

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• Ashraf Al-Ashhab ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zohar Pasternak, Ashraf Al-Ashhab, Joao Gatica

  Affiliation Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer, Israel

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• Joao Gatica ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zohar Pasternak, Ashraf Al-Ashhab, Joao Gatica

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Diseases, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

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• Ron Gafny,

  Affiliation Forensic Biology Laboratory, Division of Identification and Forensic Science (DIFS), Israel Police National Headquarters, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Shlomit Avraham,

  Affiliation Forensic Biology Laboratory, Division of Identification and Forensic Science (DIFS), Israel Police National Headquarters, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Dror Minz,

  Affiliation Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan, Israel

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• Osnat Gillor,

  Affiliation Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer, Israel

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• Edouard Jurkevitch

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Diseases, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

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