Chemosynthetic and photosynthetic bacteria contribute differentially to primary production across a steep desert aridity gradient

Agriculture & Biology

• biological soil crusts 100%
• photosynthetic bacteria 80%
• primary productivity 77%
• dry environmental conditions 69%
• deserts 62%
• topsoil 35%
• chemosynthesis 30%
• energy 29%
• arid soils 25%
• photosynthesis 24%
• ecosystems 24%
• desert soils 24%
• inorganic compounds 22%
• Calvin cycle 19%
• aerobiosis 18%
• organic compounds 17%
• organic carbon 17%
• Actinobacteria 16%
• Cyanobacteria 14%
• solar radiation 14%
• biodiversity 13%
• carbon dioxide 12%
• gases 12%
• vegetation 12%
• oxidation 12%
• carbon 10%
• biomass 10%
• genome 9%
• bacteria 9%
• cells 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• aridity 72%
• primary production 60%
• desert 54%
• bacterium 41%
• topsoil 31%
• photosynthesis 31%
• energy source 31%
• chemosynthesis 26%
• desert soil 22%
• soil crust 21%
• carbon fixation 20%
• inorganic compound 20%
• climatic region 20%
• ecosystem 19%
• resource availability 19%
• trace gas 17%
• fixation 15%
• genome 15%
• cyanobacterium 15%
• respiration 14%
• organic compound 14%
• harbor 14%
• organic carbon 12%
• fold 11%
• biodiversity 11%
• consumption 11%
• productivity 11%
• oxidation 10%
• cell 10%
• biomass 9%
• vegetation 9%
• carbon 9%
• resource 9%
• analysis 8%
• energy 7%
• soil 6%
• rate 5%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Soil 70%
• Photosynthesis 65%
• Ecosystem 48%
• Bacteria 44%
• Carbon 43%
• Hydrogenase 33%
• Carbon Cycle 33%
• Biodiversity 29%
• Aerobic Bacteria 29%
• Cyanobacteria 28%
• Actinobacteria 27%
• Metagenomics 26%
• Biomass 26%
• Sunlight 26%
• Gases 18%
• Respiration 18%
• Genome 14%