Shifts in desulfonating bacterial communities along a soil chronosequence in the forefield of a receding glacier

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 208-217

  Schmalenberger, Achim ^a   Noll, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrostis rupestris; AsfA; Leucanthemopsis alpina; Soil chronosequence; Sulfonate desulfurization; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEGLACIATION; DICOTYLEDON; GLACIER RETREAT; GRASS; MINERALIZATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; POLYMORPHISM; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL STRUCTURE; SULFATE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUR CYCLE;

AGROSTIS; ARTICLE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; DESULFURIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDOGENESIS (SOIL); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SULFUR CYCLE;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; ICE COVER; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFUR; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

DAMMAGLACIER; SWITZERLAND; URI;

AGROSTIS MERTENSII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEUCANTHEMOPSIS ALPINA; POLAROMONAS;

EID: 72949113850     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00799.x     Document Type: Article

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