Seasonal and management influences on bacterial community structure in an upland grassland soil

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-337

  Kennedy, Nabla M ^a   Gleeson, Deirdre E ^a   Connolly, John ^a   Clipson, Nicholas J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bacterial automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis; Canonical correspondence analysis; Improvement; Seasonality; Upland grassland soils

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRASSLAND; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COLD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GRASSLAND; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SEASON; SOIL; WARMING;

BACTERIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRELAND; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POACEAE; POTASSIUM; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 22044441130     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2005.01.013     Document Type: Article

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