Contrasting environmental preferences of photosynthetic and non‐photosynthetic soil cyanobacteria across the globe

M.D.-B. is supported by a Ramon y Cajal grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (RYC2018-025483-I), and by the BES grant agreement No LRB17\1019 (MUSGONET). The work of C.C.-D. and F.T.M. and the global drylands database were supported by the European Research Council [ERC Grant Agreements 242658 (BIOCOM) and 647038 (BIODESERT)] and by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (BIOMOD project, ref. CGL2013-44661-R). F.T.M. acknowledges support from Generalitat Valenciana (BIOMORES project, ref. CIDEGENT/2018/041). Research on biodiversity by B.K.S. is supported by the Australian Research Council (DP170104634). R.D.B. was supported by the U.K. Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) project no. BD5003 and a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) International Exchange Grant (BB/L026406/1).

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Publication date

  2020-09-15

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/GEB.13173
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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