Summer drought effects upon soil and litter extracellular phenol oxidase activity and soluble carbon release in an upland Calluna heathland

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1519-1532

  Toberman, Hannah ^a,b   Evans, Chris D ^b   Freeman, Christopher ^a   Fenner, Nathalie ^a   White, Marie ^a   Emmett, Bridget A ^b   Artz, Rebekka R E ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; DOC; Drought; Extracellular enzyme; Heathland; Phenol oxidase; Phenolic degradation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; SOILS;

CARBON CYCLING; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES; PHENOL OXIDASES; PHENOLIC DEGRADATION;

DROUGHT;

CARBON CYCLE; DEGRADATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DROUGHT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEATHLAND; LITTER; MOISTURE CONTENT; PEAT; PHENOL; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; SOIL CARBON;

CALLUNA;

EID: 43849107916     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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