Niche-Partitioning of Edaphic Microbial Communities in the Namib Desert Gravel Plain Fairy Circles

• Jean-Baptiste Ramond,

  Affiliation Center for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), Genomic Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Annelize Pienaar,

  Affiliation Center for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), Genomic Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Alacia Armstrong,

  Affiliation Center for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), Genomic Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Mary Seely,

  Affiliation Gobabeb Research and Training Center (GRTC), Walvis Bay, Namibia

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• Don A. Cowan

  * E-mail: don.cowan@up.ac.za

  Affiliation Center for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), Genomic Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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