Effects of short- and long-term water-level drawdown on the populations and activity of aerobic decomposers in a boreal peatland

Global Change Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 491-510

  Jaatinen, Krista ^a   Fritze, Hannu ^a   Laine, Jukka ^a   Laiho, Raija ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Global change; Microbial activity; Microbial community; Peatland; PLFA

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECOMPOSITION; DRAWDOWN; FATTY ACID; FEN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIC CONDITIONS; PEATLAND; VEGETATION COVER; WATER LEVEL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 33846895703     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01312.x     Document Type: Article

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