Importance of spatially structured environmental heterogeneity in controlling microbial community composition at small spatial scales in an agricultural field

Multi-scale variation in spatial heterog

Multi-scale variation in spatial heterogeneity for microbial community structure in an eastern Virginia agricultural field

✍ Rima B. Franklin; Aaron L. Mills 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 292 KB

To better understand the distribution of soil microbial communities at multiple spatial scales, a survey was conducted to examine the spatial organization of community structure in a wheat field in eastern Virginia (USA). Nearly 200 soil samples were collected at a variety of separation distances ra