Redox fluctuation structures microbial communities in a wet tropical soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 6998-7007

  Pett Ridge, J ^a,b   Firestone, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; NITRIFICATION; PLASTICITY; SOILS;

ANOXIC FLUCTUATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMMONIA; NITRATE;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; REDOX CONDITIONS; TROPICAL SOIL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BURKHOLDERIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROCOCCUS; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN UTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCETACEAE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; MICROCOCCUS; STREPTOMYCETACEAE; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 32144455584     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.11.6998-7007.2005     Document Type: Article

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