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Predicting microbial distributions in space and time

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Researchers describe an approach to predict microbial-community composition across broad spatial and temporal gradients, an important step to bringing microbial ecology into the 21st century.

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Figure 1: Species-distribution modeling and prediction.

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  1. Noah Fierer is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.,

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  2. Joshua Ladau is at the Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.,

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Fierer, N., Ladau, J. Predicting microbial distributions in space and time. Nat Methods 9, 549–551 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2041

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