Identifying the key taxonomic categories that characterize microbial community diversity using full-scale classification: a case study of microbial communities in the sediments of Hangzhou Bay

Affiliations

• ¹ College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
• ² School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
• ³ Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
• ⁴ Zhejiang Provincial Zhoushan Marine Ecological Environmental Monitoring Station, Zhoushan 316021, China.
• ⁵ College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China dhwen@pku.edu.cn.