Changes of the soil ecosystem along a receding glacier: Testing the correlation between environmental factors and bacterial community structure

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2611-2619

  Noll, Matthias ^a   Wellinger, Marco ^b  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine glacier forefield; Bacteria; Environmental explanatory variable; Inorganic anion; Nitrogen; Soil age; Soil water content; Succession

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BACTERIOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GLACIERS; GRADIENT METHODS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONTENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

ALPINE GLACIER FOREFIELD; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; INORGANIC ANION; NITROGEN; SOIL AGE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SUCCESSION;

SOILS;

CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEGLACIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUCLEIC ACID; ORGANIC CARBON; PH; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROPERTY; SUCCESSION; SULFATE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VALLEY GLACIER; WATER CONTENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; DAMMAGLACIER; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; URI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHYLOCYSTACEAE;

EID: 51549109496     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

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