Shrub-interspace dynamics alter relationships between microbial community composition and belowground ecosystem characteristics

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2206-2216

  Aanderud, Zachary T ^a,d   Shuldman, Michal I ^a,b   Drenovsky, Rebecca E ^c   Richards, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia tridentata; Cold deserts; Interspaces; Microbial community composition; Phospholipid fatty acid analysis; Sarcobatus vermiculatus; Tetradymia tetrameres

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COLD DESERTS; DESERT ECOSYSTEMS; INTERSPACES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL COMPOSITION; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SARCOBATUS VERMICULATUS; SHRUB SPECIES; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SOIL TYPES; SUB-SURFACE SOILS; TETRADYMIA TETRAMERES;

SOILS;

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; FATTY ACID; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SHRUB; SOIL CARBON; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SARCOBATUS VERMICULATUS; TETRADYMIA TETRAMERES;

EID: 49449109276     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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