Acidification of a sandy grassland favours bacteria and disfavours fungal saprotrophs as estimated by fatty acid profiling

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1058-1064

  Aliasgharzad, Nasser ^a   Mårtensson, Linda Maria ^b   Olsson, Pål Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Microbial community; NLFA; PLFA; Sandy grassland; Soil pH

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI; GRASSLAND SOILS; HIGH PH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NEUTRAL LIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACIDS; SANDY SOILS; SAPROTROPHIC FUNGI; SHORT DISTANCES; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL LAYER; SOIL PH; TWO LAYERS; UPPER LAYER;

ACIDS; BACTERIOLOGY; FATTY ACIDS; FUNGI; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

SOILS;

ABUNDANCE; ACIDIFICATION; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FATTY ACID; FUNGUS; GRASSLAND SOIL; LIME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAPROTROPHY; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TOPSOIL;

SWEDEN;

ARBUSCULAR; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 77954864656     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.02.025     Document Type: Article

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