Relative Roles of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes in Driving the Vertical Distribution of Bacterial Communities in a Permafrost Core from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Weigang Hu; Qi Zhang; Tian Tian; Dingyao Li; Gang Cheng; Jing Mu; Qingbai Wu; Fujun Niu; James C. Stegen; Lizhe An; Huyuan Feng

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145747

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Relative Roles of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes in Driving the Vertical Distribution of Bacterial Communities in a Permafrost Core from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Weigang Hu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Weigang Hu, Qi Zhang

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Qi Zhang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Weigang Hu, Qi Zhang

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Tian Tian,

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Dingyao Li,

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Gang Cheng,

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Jing Mu,

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Qingbai Wu ,

* E-mail: fenghy@lzu.edu.cn (HYF); qbwu@lzb.ac.cn (QBW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering (SKLFSE), Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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Fujun Niu,

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering (SKLFSE), Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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James C. Stegen,

Affiliation Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States of America
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Lizhe An,

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Huyuan Feng

* E-mail: fenghy@lzu.edu.cn (HYF); qbwu@lzb.ac.cn (QBW)

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Relative Roles of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes in Driving the Vertical Distribution of Bacterial Communities in a Permafrost Core from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Weigang Hu,
Qi Zhang,
Tian Tian,
Dingyao Li,
Gang Cheng,
Jing Mu,
Qingbai Wu,
Fujun Niu,
James C. Stegen,
Lizhe An

Published: December 23, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145747

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