Diversity and composition of tropical soil nitrifiers across a plant diversity gradient and among land-use types

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 684-694

  Carney, Karen M ^a   Matson, Pamela A ^b   Bohannan, Brendan J M ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Bacteria; Biodiversity; Community composition; La Selva Biological Station; Land use; Microbes; Nitrification; Soil; Tropics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; LAND USE; NITRIFICATION; SOIL BIOTA;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; LA SELVA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 3843094830     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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