Soil processes and microbial community structures in 45- and 135-year-old lodgepole pine stands

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2263-2271

  Chatterjee, A ^a   Ingram, L J ^b   Vance, G F ^c   Stahl, P D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; LODGEPOLE PINE FORESTS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; NITRIFICATION RATES; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OLD LODGEPOLE PINE; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACIDS; PINUS CONTORTA VAR. LATIFOLIA; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SOIL PH; SOIL PROCESS; SOIL PROPERTY; STAND AGE; TREE BIOMASS; WYOMING ,USA;

BIOMASS; FATTY ACIDS; FORESTRY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SOILS;

BULK DENSITY; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECOMPOSITION; FOREST SOIL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PH; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

BIOMASS; FATTY ACIDS; FORESTRY; LIPIDS; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOIL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 70450031228     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-132     Document Type: Article

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