Linking soil process and microbial ecology in freshwater wetland ecosystems

Plant and Soil

Volumn 289, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 17-34

  Gutknecht, Jessica L M ^a   Goodman, Robert M ^a,b   Balser, Teri C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Methanogenesis; Microbial communities; Microbial ecology; Microbial function; Mycorrhizal fungi; Nitrification; Wetland ecology; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGY; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL GAS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; WETLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 33751224447     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-006-9105-4     Document Type: Review

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