Functional diversity of soil bacterial communities in the tabonuco forest: Interaction of anthropogenic and natural disturbance

Biotropica

Volumn 28, Issue 4 A, 1996, Pages 471-483

  Willig, Michael R ^a   Moorhead, Daryl L ^a   Cox, Stephen B ^a   Zak, John C ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity; Hurricane; Landuse; Microbial communities

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0002823258     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2389089     Document Type: Article

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