Clear-cutting affects the ammonia-oxidising community differently in limed and non-limed coniferous forest soils

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 260-267

  Bäckman, Jenny S K ^a   Klemedtsson, Åsa Kasimir ^b   Klemedtsson, Leif ^c   Lindgren, Per Eric ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidising community; Clear cutting; Coniferous forest soil; Liming; Nitrosospira

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST SOIL; LIMING; OXIDATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSOSPIRA; PICEA;

EID: 4644279055     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-004-0779-6     Document Type: Article

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