Seasonal changes in the soil microbial community in a grassland plant diversity gradient four years after establishment

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2588-2595

  Habekost, Maike ^a   Eisenhauer, Nico ^b   Scheu, Stefan ^b   Steinbeiss, Sibylle ^a   Weigelt, Alexandra ^c   Gleixner, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal respiration (BR); Biodiversity; Chloroform fumigation extraction method (CFE); Phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA); Substrate induced respiration (SIR); The Jena Experiment

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

BASAL RESPIRATION (BR); CHLOROFORM FUMIGATION EXTRACTION METHOD (CFE); PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACIDS (PLFA); SUBSTRATE INDUCED RESPIRATION (SIR); THE JENA EXPERIMENT;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHLOROFORM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FATTY ACID; FUMIGATION; FUNGUS; GRASSLAND; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHOLIPID; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESPIRATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; JENA; THURINGIA;

FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 51549115421     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.06.019     Document Type: Article

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