Recent (<4 year old) leaf litter is not a major source of microbial carbon in a temperate forest mineral soil

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1028-1037

  Kramer, Christiane ^a   Trumbore, Susan ^a   Fröberg, Mats ^b   Cisneros Dozal, Luz Maria ^a   Zhang, Dachun ^a   Xu, Xiaomei ^a   Santos, Guaciara M ^a   Hanson, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

14C; EBIS; Heterotrophic respiration; Isotope; Microbial carbon; Microbial respiration; Phospholipid fatty acid; PLFA; Radiocarbon; Soil respiration

Indexed keywords

14C; EBIS; HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACIDS; SOIL RESPIRATION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; FATTY ACIDS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; MICROORGANISMS; MINERALS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SILICATE MINERALS;

SOILS;

BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST SOIL; HETEROTROPHY; LEACHING; LEAF LITTER; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHOLIPID; SOIL CARBON; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; TEMPERATE FOREST;

CARBON; EXPERIMENTATION; FATTY ACIDS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; LIPIDS; MICROORGANISMS; MINERALS; RESPIRATION; SOIL;

OAK RIDGE RESERVATION; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954865323     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.02.021     Document Type: Article

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