articlemBioJul 27, 2011GOLD OA

Phylogenetic Molecular Ecological Network of Soil Microbial Communities in Response to Elevated CO 2

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

UNLABELLED: Understanding the interactions among different species and their responses to environmental changes, such as elevated atmospheric concentrations of CO(2), is a central goal in ecology but is poorly understood in microbial ecology. Here we describe a novel random matrix theory (RMT)-based conceptual framework to discern phylogenetic molecular ecological networks using metagenomic sequencing data of 16S rRNA genes from grassland soil microbial communities, which were sampled from a long-term free-air CO(2) enrichment experimental facility at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in Minnesota. Our experimental results demonstrated that an RMT-based network approach is very useful in delineating…

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