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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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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