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Preferred term

microbial community

Definition

[SOULAS Guy] A microbial community is a functional unit which is characterized by a wide range of metabolic capacities (Wünsche et al, 1995). The pattern of carbon substrates utilization may be used as a fingerprint with the possibility of classifying microbial communities of different soils or comparing the modification of the structure of a stressed microbial community...

Broader concept

community

Entry terms

microbial communities

Scope note

MS Academic Keyword

Creator

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-3997

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20713

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Created 10/12/16, last modified 2/17/19

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