Relevance of ammonium oxidation within biological soil crust communities

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Johnson, Shannon L ^a   Budinoff, Charles R ^a,c   Belnap, Jayne ^b   Garcia Pichel, Ferran ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOIL;

CYANOBACTERIA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 12544252867     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00649.x     Document Type: Article

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