Correspondence: Analytical flaws in a continental-scale forest soil microbial diversity study
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Correspondence: Reply to ‘Analytical flaws in a continental-scale forest soil microbial diversity study'
We greatly appreciate Tedersoo’s1 interest in our recent publication2 concerning temperature effects on continental scale diversity of microbial communities in forest soils2. The Correspondence raises several questions, primarily regarding the approaches used in our study. While we welcome this debate, we disagree with the claims regarding our study design, statistical analyses and interpretati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Communications
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15572