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The biogeographic pattern of microbial communities inhabiting terrestrial mud volcanoes across the Eurasian continent
Tzu-Hsuan Tu
Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Li-Ling Chen
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Yi-Ping Chiu
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Li-Hung Lin
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Center for Future Earth, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Li-Wei Wu
Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
Francesco Italiano
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Palermo, Italy
J. Bruce H. Shyu
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Seyed Naser Raisossadat
Department of Geology, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran
Earth Science Research Group, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Center for Future Earth, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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This investigation of microbial biogeography in terrestrial mud volcanoes (MVs) covers study sites over a geographic distance of up to 10 000 km across the Eurasian continent. It compares microbial community compositions' coupling with geochemical data across a 3D space. We demonstrate that stochastic processes operating at continental scales and environmental filtering at local scales drive the formation of patchy habitats and the pattern of diversification for microbes in terrestrial MVs.
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