Dissertation Research: Diversity of Soil Crenarchaeota along an Elevational Gradient

9972713格兰特·奥林科罗拉多大学，博尔德本项目将描述科罗拉多前山脉主要栖息地的微生物多样性，重点是土壤中的陆生泉古菌。 该项目在以下方面是新颖的：1）将进行的区域地理尺度，2）多尺度嵌套系统抽样设计，它包含了超过五个数量级的距离，3）其PCR引物的系统发育特异性，这将允许对Crenarchaeota进行详尽的调查。 它将能够测试是否有一个海拔梯度的多样性，这组平行于那些在其他植物和动物群体。 它将研究微生物多样性对自然环境作出反应的空间尺度。

9972713Grant & OlineUniversity of Colorado, BoulderThis project will characterize the microbial diversity of major habitats of the Front Range of Colorado focusing on the terrestrial Crenarchaeota within soils. The project is novel in the 1) regional geographic scale over which it will be conducted, 2) the multi-scale nested systematic sampling design it incorporates covering distances over five orders of magnitude and 3) the phylogenetic specificity of its PCR primers which will allow an exhaustive survey of the Crenarchaeota present. It will be able to test whether there is an elevational gradient in diversity of this group that parallels those seen in other plant and animal groups. It will examine the spatial scales at which microbial diversity responds to natural environments.