Charcoal as a habitat for microbes and its effect on the microbial community of the underlying humus

Oikos

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-242

  Pietikäinen, Janna ^a   Kiikkilä, Oili ^a   Fritze, Hannu ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHARCOAL; HUMUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; WILDFIRE;

EID: 0342424355     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.890203.x     Document Type: Article

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