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COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES
Volume 334, Issue 5-6, Pages 403-411Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2010.12.003
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Metagenomic; Ecosystem services; Biogeography; Soil; Microbial diversity
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- ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency)
- French National Research Agency [ANR-06-BDIV-011]
- French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development (MEDAD)
- French Ministry of Agriculture (MAP)
- French Institute for Environment (IFEN)
- Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME)
- French Institute for Research and Development (IRD)
- National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA)
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Since the development of industrialization, urbanization and agriculture, soils have been subjected to numerous variations in environmental conditions, which have resulted in modifications of the taxonomic diversity and functioning of the indigenous microbial communities. As a consequence, the functional significance of these losses/modifications of biodiversity, in terms of the capacity of ecosystems to maintain the functions and services on which humanity depends, is now of pivotal importance. In this context, one of the main challenges in soil microbial ecology is to better understand and predict the processes that drive soil microbial diversity and the link between diversity and ecosystem process. This review describes past, present and ongoing conceptual and methodological strategies employed to better assess and understand the distribution and evolution of soil microbial diversity with the aim of increasing our capacity to translate such diversity into soil biological functioning and, more widely, into ecosystem services. (C) 2011 Academic des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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