microbial diversity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmicrobialanddiversity
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microbial
adjective
uk/maɪˈkrəʊ.bi.əl/us/maɪˈkroʊ.bi.əl/
relating to microbes (= very small living things, especially ones that ...
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diversity
noun[S or U]
uk/daɪˈvɜː.sə.ti/us/dɪˈvɝː.sə.t̬i/
the fact of many different types of things or people being included in something; a range of different things ...
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(Definition ofmicrobialanddiversityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The results suggest significantmicrobialdiversityin all samples.
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Adaptations to environmental extremes by multicellular organisms tubes create more homogeneous chemical and thermal microniches and likely play a role inmicrobialdiversity.
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Chapter 8, which discussesmicrobialdiversityin relation to crop health, focuses on microbial contributions to disease suppression.
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We have sampled at approximately 30 day intervals the viral populations,microbialdiversity, and water chemistry in three high temperature acidic thermal features.
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In spite of these extreme conditions, highmicrobialdiversityis found in this acidic system.
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Still, culture-independent methods have drawn our attention to the tremendousmicrobialdiversitypresent in natural environments, which has not been previously accessible using standard culture-dependent methods.
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Therefore, more ecological disease studies are needed, using perennial germplasm or analogues that examine resistance gene deployment in plant populations, host diversity, pathogen andmicrobialdiversity, burning and rotational grazing.
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Polyculture systems provide greater plant diversity and enhance soilmicrobialdiversityand such systems are able to take advantage of erratic precipitation frequency and distribution during the growing season.
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Soilmicrobialdiversityand community structure under wheat as influenced by tillage and crop rotation.
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This result indicates that for samples that contain microbial populations that are made up of many small sub-populations large libraries are needed to evaluate themicrobialdiversity.
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The extent ofmicrobialdiversityis staggering.
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There, he studiedmicrobialdiversityusing culture-independent methods.
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This fingerprinting method is a quick and sensitive method to estimatemicrobialdiversity.
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However, it has been well documented that plate counting methods usually miss approximately 99% of the totalmicrobialdiversityfound in a given environment.
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Microbiomes were discovered largely through advances in molecular genetics, which have revealed a hidden richness ofmicrobialdiversityon the planet.
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It is important to establish a base line ofmicrobialdiversitywithin ecosystems in order to gauge possible change due to climate change and the possible outcomes.
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