Soil humic compounds and microbial communities in six spruce forests as function of parent material, slope aspect and stand age

Plant and Soil

Volumn 315, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 47-65

  Carletti, Paolo ^a,b   Vendramin, Elena ^a   Pizzeghello, Diego ^a   Concheri, Giuseppe ^a   Zanella, Augusto ^a   Nardi, Serenella ^a   Squartini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI ECOLOGIA ALPINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ARDRA community profiles; Dissolved organic matter; DOM phenolics; Humic substances; Picea abies (L.) Karst; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; DNA; EVERGREEN FOREST; HUMUS; KARST; MICROCLIMATE; ORGANIC CARBON; PARENT MATERIAL; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; SLOPE ANGLE; SOFTWARE; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 58149376467     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9732-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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