Context-dependent changes in the resistance and resilience of soil microbes to an experimental disturbance for three primary plant chronosequences

Oikos

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 196-208

  Orwin, Kate H ^a,b,c   Wardle, David A ^c,d   Greenfield, Laurence G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; DISTURBANCE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

EID: 33645116682     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006.13813.x     Document Type: Article

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