Microbial communities and activities in alpine and subalpine soils

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 208-218

  Margesin, Rosa ^a   Jud, Melanie ^a   Tscherko, Dagmar ^b   Schinner, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpine soils; Dehydrogenase activity; FISH; PLFA; Psychrophiles; Subalpine

Indexed keywords

ERGOSTEROL; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

ALPINE TUNDRA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ALTITUDE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIA; COLD TEMPERATURE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; ECOSYSTEM; FATTY ACIDS; FUNGI; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GROSSGLOCKNER; HOHE TAUERN;

NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 58149131457     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00620.x     Document Type: Article

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