Soil resources influence spatial patterns of denitrifying communities at scales compatible with land management

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2243-2250

  Enwall, Karin ^a   Throbäck, Ingela N ^a   Stenberg, Maria ^a   Söderström, Mats ^a   Hallin, Sara ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE RATIOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CROP PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; CROPPING SYSTEMS; CU CONTENT; DENITRIFIERS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; GENE POOLS; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELING; HABITAT SELECTION; LAND MANAGEMENTS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; N CYCLING; NITRITE REDUCTASE; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL RESOURCES; SOIL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

CULTIVATION; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLUTION; ECOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GENES; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; PORPHYRINS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOILS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CARBON; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE (HEME); NITRITE REDUCTASE, COPPER CONTAINING; NITRITE REDUCTASE, COPPER-CONTAINING; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CROP PRODUCTION; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GENE EXPRESSION; LAND MANAGEMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL STRUCTURE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; METAGENOME; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77950263969     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02197-09     Document Type: Article

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