Regional similarities and consistent patterns of local variation in beach sand bacterial communities throughout the Northern Hemisphere

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Sand 100%
• Fresh Water 88%
• Bacterial Structures 68%
• Deltaproteobacteria 42%
• Verrucomicrobia 41%
• Pacific Ocean 41%
• Geologic Sediments 40%
• Betaproteobacteria 39%
• Gammaproteobacteria 35%
• Firmicutes 32%
• Actinobacteria 30%
• Lakes 30%
• Ecology 28%
• rRNA Genes 25%
• 16S Ribosomal RNA 25%
• High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing 23%

Agriculture & Biology

• beaches 77%
• bacterial communities 73%
• sand 61%
• community structure 29%
• delta-Proteobacteria 15%
• Planctomycetes 15%
• Verrucomicrobia 15%
• beta-Proteobacteria 13%
• shorelines 13%
• Great Lakes 13%
• microbial ecology 13%
• gamma-Proteobacteria 12%
• Pacific Ocean 12%
• marine environment 12%
• Firmicutes 11%
• phylogeny 11%
• aquatic environment 11%
• biogeography 11%
• Actinobacteria 10%
• sediments 9%
• ribosomal RNA 7%
• sampling 3%
• genes 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• Northern Hemisphere 64%
• beach 59%
• sand 44%
• community structure 26%
• phylogenetics 17%
• microbial ecology 12%
• biogeography 11%
• aquatic environment 9%
• community composition 9%
• marine environment 8%
• comparison 8%
• gene 7%
• lake 6%
• ocean 5%
• sediment 4%