Estimating Bacterial Diversity for Ecological Studies: Methods, Metrics, and Assumptions

• Julia Birtel ,

  * E-mail: julia.birtel@eawag.ch

  Affiliations Eawag, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Systems Sciences (D-USYS), Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland

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• Jean-Claude Walser,

  Affiliation Genetic Diversity Centre (GDC), Department of Environmental System Sciences (D-USYS), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland

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• Samuel Pichon,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Zoology and Evolution, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Helmut Bürgmann,

  Affiliation Eawag, Department of Surface Waters, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland

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• Blake Matthews

  Affiliation Eawag, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland

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