Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum L.) frond biomass and rhizosphere microbial community characteristics are correlated to edaphic factors

Plant and Soil

Volumn 249, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 359-371

  Watrud, Lidia S ^a   Maggard, Sharon ^b   Shiroyama, Tamotsu ^a   Coleman, Clarace G ^c   Johnson, Mark G ^a   Donegan, Katherine K ^b   Di Giovanni, George ^a,d   Porteous, L Arlene ^a   Lee, E Henry ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b DYNAMAC CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Natl Asian Pacific Center on Aging   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fern rhizosphere; Microbial ecology; Soil age; Soil processes

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FERN; IRON; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PH; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN;

UNITED STATES;

ANURA; FILICOPHYTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PTERIDIUM; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM;

EID: 0038581672     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022885100254     Document Type: Article

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