Temporal Dynamics of Soil Virus and Bacterial Populations in Agricultural and Early Plant Successional Soils
As reported in many aquatic environments, recent studies in terrestrial ecosystems implicate a role for viruses in shaping the structure, function, and evolution of prokaryotic soil communities.However, given the heterogeneity of soil and the physical constraints (i.e., pore-scale hydrology and solid-phase adsorption of phage and host cells) on the