Plant presence and species combination, but not diversity, influence denitrifier activity and the composition of nirK-type denitrifier communities in grassland soil

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 377-387

  Bremer, Christina ^a   Braker, Gesche ^a   Matthies, Diethart ^b   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^c   Conrad, Ralf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community structure; Denitrifiers; Function; Plant communities

Indexed keywords

COPPER; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND SOIL; MESOCOSM; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DENITRIFICATION; DENITRIFYER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRASSLAND; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SOIL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUMMER;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; PLANTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 70449090073     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00732.x     Document Type: Article

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