A metastable equilibrium model for the relative abundances of microbial phyla in a hot spring

Many studies link the compositions of microbial communities to their environments, but the energetics of organism-specific biomass synthesis as a function of geochemical variables has rarely been assessed. We describe a thermodynamic model that integrates geochemical and metagenomic data for biofilm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dick, Jeffrey, Shock, E.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13079