Effects of wildfire and harvest disturbances on forest soil bacterial communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 216-224

  Smith, Nancy R ^a   Kishchuk, Barbara E ^b   Mohn, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; MICROORGANISMS;

BOREAL FORESTS; FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; HARVEST DISTURBANCES; MICROBIAL BIOMASS;

FORESTRY;

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITRATE; NITROGEN; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; DNA; FOREST SOIL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RNA; SOIL MICROORGANISM; WILDFIRE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRE ECOLOGY; FOGO SELVAGEM; FOREST SOIL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HARVEST; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA FINGERPRINTING; RNA GENE; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPRUCE; TAIGA;

ALBERTA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTROPHORESIS; FIRES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; MICROORGANISMS;

ALBERTA; CANADA; CHISHOLM; NORTH AMERICA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; PICEA;

EID: 37849036782     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01355-07     Document Type: Article

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