Spatial distribution of bacterial communities and their relationships with the micro-architecture of soil

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-215

  Nunan, Naoise ^a   Wu, Kejian ^b   Young, Iain M ^b   Crawford, John W ^b   Ritz, Karl ^c  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Image analysis; Soil bacteria; Soil structure; Soil thin sections; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037447853     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00027-8     Document Type: Article

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